Physical activity as health promotion action: A critical essay

• Autor(a) principal: Bottcher, Lara Belmudes
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Gestão & Saúde (Brasília)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/rgs/article/view/23324
• topic: Atividade Física. Exercício. Promoção da Saúde.; Actividad física; Ejercicio; Promoción de la Salud.; Physical activity; Exercise; Health Promotion.

The practice of Physical Activity is currently seen as an essential part of prevention and treatment of many chronic degenerative diseases. Studies reported that practicing physical activity can prevent and help treating various chronic degenerative diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, depression, cancer, osteoporosis, hypertension, and obesity, among others. Such diseases are acquired from negative health related lifestyle habits. The lack of physical activity is a behavior that leads to the development of various diseases. For this reason it is important to understand the practice of regular physical activity as health promotion action. According to anecdotal evidence on physical activity and its benefits, the Ministry of Health currently considers bodily practices and physical activity as attitudes of extreme importance for health promotion. In this sense, the National Policy for the Promotion of Health, published in 2006, comprises among its eight specific actions the bodily practices and physical activities.