Leisure Sports Facilities Make Urban Residents Healthier? Exploring the Benefits of Leisure Sports Facilities in the View of Healthy City in Taiwan
- DOI
- 10.2991/acsr.k.191223.044How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- healthy city, leisure sports facilities, contingent valuation method
- Abstract
The World Health Organization in 1981 began promoting Healthy City and Healthy Community vision to promote the healthy behavior of protection and improvement of the quality of life and maximize the protection of the natural environment to reduce the impact of disasters, such as losing exercise, nutrient surplus, obesity, the accumulation of pressure, depression, hypertension, and metabolic syndrome. They really caused great impact of physical and mental health. One of indicators of Health City is the Leisure Sports Facilities, and exercise indeed helps reduce stress, anxiety symptoms and mood improvement and improvement of quality of life. However, the benefits of healthy city programs and the importance of leisure sports facilities are rarely been explored in the past, so the study aims to use Contingent Valuation Method, CVM method to realized the benefit of citizen opinion and then gain a better understanding of the relationship between leisure sports and physical and mental health. Finally, this study has the following conclusions: (1) the implementation of healthy city program can enhance the health of residents; (2) often use the ice rink, gym, more times of leisure exercise and using leisure sports facilities can effectively improve their self-evaluation of health; (3) different backgrounds, living habits and health levels have a significant influence on the willingness to pay of leisure sports facilities.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Chien-Wen Lo AU - Tsu-Hsin Hsu PY - 2019 DA - 2019/12/24 TI - Leisure Sports Facilities Make Urban Residents Healthier? Exploring the Benefits of Leisure Sports Facilities in the View of Healthy City in Taiwan BT - Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Big Data, Electronics and Communication Engineering (BDECE 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 200 EP - 204 SN - 2352-538X UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/acsr.k.191223.044 DO - 10.2991/acsr.k.191223.044 ID - Lo2019 ER -