Olympics Supercourse Exercise and Health, an Olympic Ideal

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Olympics SupercourseExercise and Health, an
Olympic Ideal

• Collaborative efforts of US Olympic Committee and
  Global health Network (Supercourse)
• Supercourse www.pitt.edu/super1/

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Definition of Prevention

• Actions aimed at eradicating, eliminating, or
  minimizing the impact of disease and disability.
  The concept of prevention is best defined in the
  context of levels, traditionally called primary,
  secondary, and tertiary prevention
• A Dictionary of Epidemiology,
  Fourth Edition Edited by John M. Last

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Objectives

• To overview of supercourse and its functioning
• To Describe United States Olympics Committee
  (USCOC) and its functioning as related to
  exercise and health
• To build an Olympics Supercourse for the Olympics
  and Paralympics with USOC, International Olympic
  committee and Supercourse Team

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Why should one practice prevention?
Rising Life Expectancy (WHO Report, 1997)
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Concept of Telepreventive Medicine

• Telepreventive medicine
• Inexpensive Low to High bandwidth systems
  designed to reach large numbers of healthy people
  to prevent disease.
• Telemedicine
• Expensive High bandwidth systems designed to
  reach small numbers of sick people to cure disease

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Supercourse - model of global health network

• The Global Health Network is a group of leading
  public health and telecommunications officials
  who are bringing state of the art Internet
  technology into global health.
• Mission
• To connect people involved in prevention
  worldwide

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Supercourse

• It was originally funded by NASA and currently
  funded by the National Library of Medicine, NIH,
  USA
• Currently more than 151 countries are connected
  through the Supercourse
• More than top notch scientific 1,700 lectures
  available on the website http//www.pitt.edu/supe
  r1
• There are 8 noble prize winners who have
  contributed their lectures to supercourse
• More than 40 members are from developing
  countries.
• Many of the leading experts of exercise and
  health have contributed

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What is the new global language of teaching?
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Focused lectures on prevention

• Every year, the supercourse team produce a
  lecture on a specific topic in prevention and
  spreads it around the world
• Last year Hippocrates birthday was celebrated by
  developing golden lecture on prevention
• Golden Lecture of Prevention illustrated and
  commemorated the role of prevention in continuing
  to make our planet healthier
• This lecture was seen and used by more than a
  200,000 people from 138
• We also include leading lectures on rehabilitation

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Olympics lecture on physical activity and Health

• This year we have developed a lecture on physical
  activity and health.
• This lecture has been dedicated to Olympics games
  in Athens, Greece
• This lecture integrates the Olympic ideals plus
  our knowledge of the science of physical activity
  and health
• The lecture can be viewed at www.pitt.edu/super1
  /lecture/lec15451/index.htm
• We hope that by September 2004, this lecture will
  be viewed by more than a million population
  worldwide, making this the most viewed lecture
  ever

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Information on health at Olympics website

• Exercise is a everyday part of your life can help
  develop and maintain a high level of health by
  reducing stress, improving energy, vitality and
  maintaining a positive self perception.
• Very little information regarding exercise,
  health physical activity etc is available at
  Olympics website. We will integrate our expert
  information with the Olympic site.

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United States Olympic Committee (USCO)

• USOC is a non profit organization and is the
  National Olympic Committee (NOC) for the United
  states
• Mission
• Preserve and promote the Olympic ideal as an
  effective, positive role model that inspires all
  Americans USOC
• Supports American athletes in general and Olympic
  athletes in particular
• Athletes that wish to participate in the Olympics
  are approved and entered by USOC. The committee
  is also responsible for entering athletes in the
  Pan American Games.

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Support of Athletes by USOC

• USOC has established a number of training centers
  throughout the country.
• Top athletes can live, train and get specialized
  medical attention in these centers
• USOC) serves as the National Paralympics
  Committee (NPC)

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USOC Sports Medicine Division

• Sports Medicine division Offers Athletic Training
  in several training centers
• Selected through an application and interview
  process, engage in daily responsibilities to
  learn, build and gain experience and insight
  towards the world of sports medicine
• Jim Scherr is CEO and Ed Ryan is currently the
  Director of Sports Medicine, USOC medical
  coordinator for the U.S. Paralympics Team

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Collaboration of USOC, Olympics Supercourse

• Objectives
• Develop a partnership between USOC, Olympics and
  the Supercourse by sharing scientifically based
  health prevention information one exercise and
  health to the schools of the world.
• Develop an Olympics Supercourse to share
  knowledge and take care of Olympics Athletes
  health through health prevention
• Build a library of lectures focusing on exercise
  including top scientific quality prevention and
  care program
• Establish lectures to employ exercise to prevent
  disease for those who are disabled, and
  distribute these to those who are disabled and
  those who are not

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OLYMPICS SUPERCOURSE

• USOC MISSION
• Preserve and promote the Olympic ideal as an
  effective, positive role model that inspires all
  Americans
• Supercourse Mission
• Preserve and promote the health of Olympics
  Athletes by sharing knowledge on physical
  activity and disease prevention
• Both these missions are in parallel to each other
  and can be partnered
• According to Ed Ryan of USOC our joint efforts
• Aligned with the betterment of society and
  prevention

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Olympics Supercourse

• Olympics games
• The five rings symbolize the five significant
  continents and are interconnected to symbolize
  the friendship to be gained from these
  international competitions
• Supercourse is an interconnected global network
  of preventionists linking more than 151 countries
  together with more than 40 countries from
  developing nations
• The Olympics and supercourse should work hand and
  hand for better society

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Olympics Supercourse
Supercourse

• Strive and compete at highest level to provide
  knowledge of prevention to world renown athletes.
• Share world preventionists to Olympic players
• Product health role mode athletes of the world

• Striving to compete at the highest levels in
  sport
• Link countries through their best athletes and
  link them together
• Product world renown athletes

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Olympics Supercourse

• Olympics 2004
• TOWARDS EXERCISE AND
  HEALTH
• Partnering Olympics, USOC Supercourse

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