HOPE WEEK 1 Health issues

• Physical and mental structures or schemas

  needed to diagnose or assess complex issues
• Knowledge of situational factors regarding tasks,

  the organization, and the people
• Experiential knowledge helpful for defining

  problems, evaluating restrictions, and

  implementing plans
• COMMON HEALTH ISSUES FACED BY ATHLETES:

  • Lack of Sleep
  • Severe Stress
  • Poor Diet
  • Cold and Flu
  • Sprains/Strains
  • Health and Wellness
• • ECONOMIC PROBLEMS - financial crises characterized by plummeting stock markets, downfall of many financial institutions, and even governments of wealthy nations provided rescue plans for their financial systems.
• LEGAL ISSUES - legal environment for sports organizations can also pose complex problems and is therefore, a priority area for sports organization leaders. Sports related legal problems and lawsuits are reported almost daily in local and national news.
• PUBLIC RELATIONS ISSUES - legal environment for sports organizations can also pose complex problems and is

  therefore, a priority area for sports organization leaders. Sports related legal problems and lawsuits are reported almost daily in local and national news.
• POLITICAL ISSUES - Depending on the component or setting of the sports industry in which it operates, a sports organization can be positively or negatively influenced by its political environment.
• SOCIOCULTURAL ISSUES - -This area has been very challenging to sports organization leaders in modern days
• TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES - Technological advances in infrastructure, information technology, mobile applications and communications, and social networking improve the sports industry experience; however, they also cause a host of new problems.