Exercise Interventions and Testing for Effective Health Promotion

Dear Colleagues,

The design, implementation and guidance regarding safe and effective physical activity–exercise intervention programs have become an important public health priority for the prevention and rehabilitation of different chronic diseases (both physical and mental). A key factor that plays one of the most central roles in the successful design, implementation, and sustainability of a physical activity–exercise intervention program is the evaluation stage (assessment of the existing situations, needs, and problems of the population). Without testing and evaluation, an exercise intervention program is less likely to succeed.

This Special Issue aims to highlight the importance of health screening–testing, as well as the efficiency of different physical activity and exercise intervention programs in the promotion of physical and mental health and, consequently, the prevention and rehabilitation of different chronic diseases.

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to our Special Issue by presenting your work on healthy populations or on individuals of different ages (children, adolescents, adults and elderly individuals) with chronic diseases, including original articles, case studies, reviews (scoping, narrative, systematic, etc.) or meta-analyses.

We look forward to receiving your contributions to our Special Issue entitled: “Exercise Interventions and Testing for Effective Health Promotion”.

Prof. Dr. Vassilis Gerodimos
Dr. Konstantina Karatrantou
Guest Editors

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