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.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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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
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