title: Time for sport and health to be formally linked in a positive way.
abstract: Preventing sports injury has rarely been cited as an appropriate action to respond to the obesity epidemic, and in fact a recent letter has suggested that those playing sport are as responsible for their predicament as those who are obese. This opinion piece argues that it is time for better prevention and management of sports injury to be seen as part of the complex solution to preventing obesity, rather than being a self-inflicted problem that governments should continue to ignore.
authors.affiliation: South Sydney Sports Medicine, University of New South Wales, 111 Anzac Pde, Kensington NSW 2033, Australia. johnorchard@msn.com.au
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Orchard
mesh_terms: D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000191:economics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D001315:Australia; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006291:Health Policy; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D009765:Obesity / Q000191:economics / Q000517:prevention & control