SALUTE ATTIVA, BENESSERE E ADVOCACY

[Autom. eng. transl.] The man to feel and to live well cannot do without an adequate quantity and quality of motor activity. The health benefits, according to the latest scientific evidence, are relevant to the point that the World Health Organization has defined exercise as a powerful disease prevention tool. The 2010 Toronto Charter urges all states, regions and communities to engage politically to enhance the importance of physical activity for health improvement. The Charter is a real call to act in synergy on four fronts: the first focuses on the implementation of a national political action plan; the second on the convinced choice of activating policies - of urbanization, tax, in the workplace, in education, in sports environments, in communication environments - that guide and support physical activity; the third front is that of re-orientation and re-organization of services and funding to give priority to physical activity while the last, no less important but rather essential, concerns the development of partnerships and collaborations involving different sectors and the same communities, at national, regional and local level.