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The nations of the world have established a series of organisations for international collaboration. Of world-wide coverage and of particular significance are the organisations of the United Nations’s family, where sovereign states are the members. Two of these organisations are actively concerned with sports: UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) with sports and culture and the WHO (the World Health Organization) with sports and health.
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Karvonen, M.J. (1984). Sport and Health: An Outline of the World Health Organization’s Position. In: Ilmarinen, M. (eds) Sport and International Understanding. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49961-6_31
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