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This Opinion Editorial seeks to explore how Jamaica’s childhood games and street play are overlooked tools for improving national health outcomes. We seek to propose that reclaiming skipping ropes, ring games, and after-school yard/school games such as dandy shandy can be a policy angle and not just reduced to mere nostalgia.
The Op-Ed would be framed through a rights-based lens to posit that every Caribbean child deserves safe opportunities for movement, and that culturally familiar activities may be more sustainable and inclusive than formal exercise programmes (due to inconsistent implementation of programmes in schools regionwide). By valuing what we already know and love, we make physical activity joyful, affordable, and truly Caribbean.
Abstract
This Opinion Editorial seeks to explore how Jamaica’s childhood games and street play are overlooked tools for improving national health outcomes. We seek to propose that reclaiming skipping ropes, ring games, and after-school yard/school games such as dandy shandy can be a policy angle and not just reduced to mere nostalgia.
The Op-Ed would be framed through a rights-based lens to posit that every Caribbean child deserves safe opportunities for movement, and that culturally familiar activities may be more sustainable and inclusive than formal exercise programmes (due to inconsistent implementation of programmes in schools regionwide). By valuing what we already know and love, we make physical activity joyful, affordable, and truly Caribbean.
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