Talking physical activity and Golf and health, with Dr Andrew Murray. Episode #349 - a podcast by BMJ Group

We were thrilled to catch up again with Dr Andrew Murray, the recently appointed Chief Medical Officer to the PGA European Tour, European Tour Performance Institute, and Ryder Cup Europe. He is universally known for his work promoting physical activity for health, his ultra-endurance challenges, and for leading the ‘Golf and Health project’. In this podcast he covers everything from the health benefits of golf, how to produce a consensus statement, the WHO’s GAPPA, to how to overcome various factors affecting knowledge translation #Gold

Various papers/resources are referred to throughout the podcast, links to which can be found below:http://bjsm.bmj.com/lookup/doi/10.1136/bjsports-2018-099509
http://bjsm.bmj.com/lookup/doi/10.1136/bjsports-2018-099771The relationships between golf and health: a scoping review
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/1/12Previous BJSM podcast on Golf&Health:
https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/andrew-murray-1The World Health Organization’s Global Action Plan for Physical Activity: Prof Fiona Bull https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/the-world-health-organizations-global- action-plan-for-physical-activity-prof-fiona-bull?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/bjsm-1
It is time to replace publish or perish with get visible or vanish: opportunities where digital and social media can reshape knowledge translationhttps://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2017/11/17/bjsports-2017-098367

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