Athletics Australia manages the Running Australia program that accommodates more than 80 fun run events. In addition to active participants in running, the Sweeney Sports Report estimates a quarter of the population run recreationally - equating to more than five million people.
Healthe through its network of offices in Australia provide a unique combination of products, services and information to assist all Australians to prevent and manage their health challenges.
Healthe’s services include an online personal health record, partnerships with health and lifestyle merchants providing savings on a range of products and services and many other resources to endorse maximum performance and health.
Healthe will work with Athletics Australia to develop an elite product that better allows athletes, their coaches and medical advisors to manage treatment wherever the athlete is training or competing.
The news comes 48 hours after a report from Sport Knowledge Australia (SKA) in which Prof Kevin Norton, says that an array of strategies and programmes designed to stem the rate of obesity in Australian children have failed.
“Right now all levels of government are doing little more than tinkering in terms of the financial resources available to tackle the problem. Tens of millions of dollars is a lot of money but when spent addressing this issue it is minuscule and is not having any measurable impact on the obesity crisis.
“We need to spend closer to $1 billion to make positive change, he said”
