‘Dawn of Health Home’ team: promoting health and empowering underdeveloped rural areas in China through exercise,British Journal of Sports Medicine

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‘Dawn of Health Home’ team: promoting health and empowering underdeveloped rural areas in China through exercise
British Journal of Sports Medicine ( IF 11.6 ) Pub Date : 2024-12-01 , DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2024-108349
Lin Yang _{1,

2} , Chunfang Zhang _{1,

2} , Bofan Chen _{1,

2} , Haimin Zeng _{1,

2} , Xinxing Zeng ₃ , Jie Peng _{2,

4,

5} , Liang Hao ₄

Affiliation

In 2017, the Chinese government launched the ‘Healthy China’ policy, with the aim of providing comprehensive health services through all stages of life for Chinese citizens. This implied the need to intensify efforts in health education and promotion ensuring that Chinese people receive effective health services at every stage of their life cycle. However, China has the largest elderly population in the world and generally has lower levels of health literacy, exacerbated by significant urban‒rural disparities.1 Additionally, the migration of the population from rural areas to urban areas, combined with the ageing of the remaining population, is placing increasingly heavy burdens on the social economy. According to statistics, by the end of 2022, there were 14.41 million health workers in China, with fewer than 9.5% working in rural clinics; however, these rural workers needed to provide health services for nearly 35% of China’s population. The significant urban‒rural healthcare disparity restricts the access that elderly people in rural China have to services related to the ‘exercise promotes health’ strategy. Thus, strengthening rural health services to improve the physical health of the rural elderly is key to advancing the realisation of the ‘Healthy China’ policy as well as the ‘Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ strategy. Exercise can prevent and treat chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and osteoarthritis, which are common among elderly people in rural areas.2 To further explore the practical application and socioeconomic benefits of an ‘exercise promotes health’ strategy in underdeveloped rural areas, we conducted a door-to-door survey on the exercise status and medical expenses of elderly people living in these regions. The results showed that there is a general lack of …

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