Stay ConnectedHealth and Leisure: Making the Connections 2nd Edition eBook
This second edition of Health and Leisure: Making the Connections is more than a simple update to the field-defining first edition published in 2010, reframing and extending knowledge by emphasizing prevention, equity, and real-world application. While the original volume established leisure as a vital context for health and wellness through transdisciplinary scholarship, this new edition incorporates more than a decade of scientific progress and social change. It expands the conceptualization of health to fully integrate social, spiritual, environmental, and cultural dimensions, and addresses contemporary issues such as climate change, environmental policy, health inequities, population diversity, the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and implementation science. Together, these additions position leisure not merely as a personal lifestyle choice, but as a critical determinant of health and well-being in complex social systems. With a strong focus on translating research into practice, this edition equips scholars, practitioners and policy makers with evidence-informed insights to design inclusive, effective, leisure-based strategies that promote health, resilience, and quality of life.
PART 1: Leisure as a Context for Health and Well-Being
1 Leisure as a Context for Health and Well-Being
Dart Schmalz, Julie Lammel, Carly Knudson
2 Relations Between Leisure, Health, and Wellness
Elizabeth Orsega-Smith, Laura L. Payne
3 Leisure as a Context for Prevention
Elizabeth H. Weybright, Linda L. Caldwell
PART 2: Leisure in Dimensions of Health and Well-Being
4 Leisure and Mental Health
Shinichi Nagata, Shintaro Kono
5 Environment and Climate Change
Elizabeth E. Perry, Alyssa S. Thomas
6 Socioeconomic Status and Health
Jeff Rose, Paige Fery
7 Leisure and Becoming Physically Active
Sammie L. Powers, Keegan T. Peterson, Andrew T. Kaczynski, Melissa Bopp
8 Using the Social Ecological Model to Explore the Interconnections
Between Leisure and Social Health
Hung-Ling (Stella) Liu, Sammie L. Powers
9 Leisure and Spiritual Health
Paul Heintzman
PART 3: Leisure and Health Across the Lifespan
10 Youth and Leisure: A Case Exploration of Health-Promoting Youth
Development Practices, Programs, and Experiences
Barry Garst, Alexsandra Dubin, Alexandra Skrocki,Tracey Gaslin, John Hamilton
11 Leisure in Life Dimensions: Adolescence
Clifton E. Watts Jr., Jennifer C. Matthews
12 Young Adults, Mental Health, and Leisure Behavior
Joanna E. Bettmann, Annelise Jolley, Allison Cohen
13 Family Health
Camilla J. Hodge, Annelise Jolley, Karen K. Melton
14 Leisure and Health in Later Life
Meghan C. Janke, Jaesung An
PART 4: Leisure and Health for Different Groups
15 Leisure and Health for Women
Kate Evans, Kellie Walters
16 Leisure and Health for Men
Katherine Broughton, Wonock Chung
17 Latino Leisure and Well-Being
Mariela Fernandez, A. Stefanie Ruiz
18 Black Populations
Harrison P. Pinckney IV, Daniel Theriault
19 Disabilities
W. Thomas Means, Jordan McIntire
20 Leisure and Health Among LGBTQ+ People
Tiff “TC” Cunin, XingXing Wu
PART 5: Leisure and Health in Society and Culture
21 Leisure and Stress Management
Jaesung An
22 Parks, Physical Activity, and Disparities in Park Use
Deborah Cohen
23 Sexual Health, Pleasure Deficit, and What Does Leisure Have
to Do With It?
Liza Berdychevsky
24 Mindful Dining as Leisure: A Path to Health and Wellness
Darcy Yue Lu, Heather Gibson, Yao-Chin Wang
25 Making the Best of Disruptive Events in Later Life: The
Resource of Leisure
Susan L. Hutchinson, Sarah H. Standridge, Douglas A. Kleiber
PART 6: Leisure and Health in Environments and Policy
26 The Effect of Leisure Environments on Dimenions of Health
and Wellness
Carly Knudson, Andrew Mowen, Ariane Bedimo-Rung
27 Nature’s Prescription for Health
Olivia McAnirlin, Mondira Bardhan, T. Elliott Floyd, Matthew H. E. M. Browning
28 Introduction to Implementation Science and Application to
Leisure and Health
Elizabeth H. Weybright, Julie Son, Linda L. Caldwell