Recency of the Education in the Field of the Health Protection and Promotion in the Czech Republic Hundred Years Ago and Today
Abstract
Importance of the physical activity as an integral component of healthy lifestyle was widely recognized by educators, doctors and others. The aim of this article is to compare the recommendations formulated by leading scientific capacities almost a hundred years ago with the current situation.
Health educational publication Sanitary Reader was published in 1921 for the general public. In that book a number of leading experts made recommendations on how to prevent illnesses and how to adapt lifestyles to improve health.
Current statistical data show that still valid arguments and recommendations of those experts are far from being respected by population. Despite considerably more compelling arguments gathered, the public's response to healthy lifestyle recommendations remain unheard of by the general public.
The high prevalence of non-communicable diseases in the Czech population is directly related to wrong eating habits, drug abuse, harmful habits and especially insufficient physical activity.