Play for health and wellbeing: reinforcing and reinvigorating the evidence base

In this concluding paper to the theme edition on Play for Health and Wellbeing, we explain how the eight papers that comprise this collection have strengthened the evidence base and sharpened the thinking that supports the proposition that play enriches health and bolsters wellbeing. We also move beyond our evidence base to outline the challenges that lie ahead in exploring the play-health-wellbeing nexus, specifying priority actions that are empirical, conceptual and political.