Sport and Physical Activities in the Czech Republic

• Authors: Aleš Sekot
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The situation on the field of physical/sportive activities in Czech Republic has been affected in the course of recent decades with fundamental political, economical and cultural changes of transforming society and general situation of workforce in context of sedentary society in particular. To contribute to increasing knowledge of the present-day position of sport in the Czech Republic means to search the relevant relations of municipalities and their policies to various levels of sport. To discuss the situation of sport includes describing the present position and role of sport activities in different societal and demografic parts of society too. From the perspective of the situation in sport delivery at the municipal level it must be borne in mind that there are diverse voluntary sports organizations in existence within the municipality, and, naturally, there is also the private sector. Underlying health determinants of a socioeconomic nature play a major role in causing vulnerability to health risks, including obesity as relevant negative reflection of passive way of life. Representative documents retrieved on national and school policies reflected by findings of the PREVOB Project confirmed mutually dependent and interconnected topical issues like nutrition policy and physical activity policy. The phenomenon of physical/sportive activity is connected with lifestyle behaviours. The most critical policy area on physical/sportive activity is the sole fact of sedentary nature of contemporary society: a very high level of prestige of sport and sportive activities in Czech society is incompatible with a very low level of practical regular physical or sport activities.

Keywords

EN

sport; physical activity; life style; sport facilities; obesity; PREVOB project; major sport events; tourism destinations; sport marketing; qualitative local development; urban renewal; socio-cultural regeneration

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 44-65

Dates

published

1 - 6 - 2010

online

21 - 7 - 2010

Contributors

author

Aleš Sekot

• Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10141-010-0006-0