‘A Different Ball Game’: Engaging Men from Rural and Lower Socioeconomic Areas in Behavioural Weight Management Interventions
Men in lower socioeconomic rural areas are at higher risk of ill-health but less likely to participate in preventative health interventions than rural women. This thesis highlights that a greater consideration of socioeconomic factors in weight management interventions for men is required. Then, pro...
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2023
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| author | McDonald, Matthew David |
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| description | Men in lower socioeconomic rural areas are at higher risk of ill-health but less likely to participate in preventative health interventions than rural women. This thesis highlights that a greater consideration of socioeconomic factors in weight management interventions for men is required. Then, provides a case example for how a metropolitan program can be adapted with rural stakeholders, and offers insights into how popular local sports can help engage rural men in health interventions. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-929102023-08-11T06:48:48Z ‘A Different Ball Game’: Engaging Men from Rural and Lower Socioeconomic Areas in Behavioural Weight Management Interventions McDonald, Matthew David Men in lower socioeconomic rural areas are at higher risk of ill-health but less likely to participate in preventative health interventions than rural women. This thesis highlights that a greater consideration of socioeconomic factors in weight management interventions for men is required. Then, provides a case example for how a metropolitan program can be adapted with rural stakeholders, and offers insights into how popular local sports can help engage rural men in health interventions. 2023 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/92910 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | McDonald, Matthew David ‘A Different Ball Game’: Engaging Men from Rural and Lower Socioeconomic Areas in Behavioural Weight Management Interventions |
| title | ‘A Different Ball Game’: Engaging Men from Rural and Lower
Socioeconomic Areas in Behavioural Weight Management Interventions |
| title_full | ‘A Different Ball Game’: Engaging Men from Rural and Lower
Socioeconomic Areas in Behavioural Weight Management Interventions |
| title_fullStr | ‘A Different Ball Game’: Engaging Men from Rural and Lower
Socioeconomic Areas in Behavioural Weight Management Interventions |
| title_full_unstemmed | ‘A Different Ball Game’: Engaging Men from Rural and Lower
Socioeconomic Areas in Behavioural Weight Management Interventions |
| title_short | ‘A Different Ball Game’: Engaging Men from Rural and Lower
Socioeconomic Areas in Behavioural Weight Management Interventions |
| title_sort | ‘a different ball game’: engaging men from rural and lower
socioeconomic areas in behavioural weight management interventions |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/92910 |