This book explores the intersections between leisure and health. It reveals and critiques the nuanced ways that leisure impacts health and considers how health professions use leisure as 'tool'. Case studies present developing leisure and health themes, in relation emerging environmental, health and societal challenges that confront the world.

Contributions by: Lynn Anderson, Holly Bowen-Salter, Nina Burridge, Simon Darcy, Katherine Dashper, Christina Davies, Leila Gholizadeh, Simone Grabowski, Tonia Gray, Sara Karacsony, Alexis Marcoux Rouleau, Danielle McDonald, Annette Michelsen La Cour, Emma Milanese, Torben Nielsen, Carmel Nottle, Jenny Onyx, Michelle O’Shea, Victoria Paraschak, Sonya Pearce, Melanie Pescud, Arianne Reis, Joyce Simard, Zoei Sutton