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Physical activity as a strategy of health prevention

An analysis of the partnerships that are taking place between the voluntary sports organisations- associations and the municipalities in relation to physical activity and sport as health promotion and prevention.

The project has focus on the strategies and actions taken by the sport organisations in order to solve future welfare task. Further more an analysis of how the structure of the internal power and the autonomy in the field of sport is influenced by the collaboration with the authorities will take place.

The theoretical and methodological foundation of the analysis is the sociologist Pierre Bourdieus theory of social fields.

Head of project: Charlotte Østergaard

Supervisor: Else Trangbæk