ArticleHealth and human rights2021
Physical Activity as a Human Right?
Article in Health and human rights, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Toward a 'Holistic' Approach to Promoting Physical and Mental Health in Children and Adolescents Through Physical Activity.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026Review
- Ankle Bracing as a Public Health Game Changer: A Narrative Review on the Prevention of Ankle Injuries in Basketball Players.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- Mitigating climate change in sports leagues: A scenario-based analysis of travel distances in women's and men's amateur soccer in Germany.Journal of sport and health science · 2025Article
- Restricting sports participation on public health and individual well-being grounds: a critical analysis of sport-related rights.The international sports law journal · 2025Article
- End-of-life in cancer patients: Medicolegal implications and ethical challenges in Europe.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2025Review
- [In defense of walking and cycling as a means of transportation in Brazil].Cadernos de saude publica · 2025Article
- "It is something that gives us hope": Lived experience among parents to children with cerebral palsy who are non-ambulant of the phenomenon physical activity, with or without the use of a novel dynamic standing device.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Public awareness of the importance of physical activity has increased due to the many lockdowns imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. This has brought more widespread attention to a question previously confined primarily to parts of the physical activity promotion community: Do humans have a right to be active? While the public health benefits of physical activity are undisputed, up to now no clear understanding has emerged as to whether physical activity represents a human right. Even though the right to physical activity is not explicitly recognized in international human rights treaties, it seems possible to derive it from well-established human rights such as the right to health, the right to rest and leisure, the right to education, and the principle of nondiscrimination. This paper shows how a right to physical activity could be derived from international human rights treaties, how the attributes of such a right could be defined, and which state obligations would be associated with it. Given that the current human rights discourse in this field focuses mainly on the interconnections between sport and human rights, we would like to argue that there is added value in a debate about physical activity as a human right.
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