The Influence of Local Authorities on the Formation of a System of Motivation of Citizens for a Healthy Lifestyle

Abstract

The health of the nation is the key to the successful development of any state. Therefore, taking care of the health of each citizen and creating conditions for its preservation are the key objectives of authorities at all levels. To develop and implement the organizational and methodological measures aimed at solving this problem, it is necessary to create a complex system of measures accounting for the specific features of the country as a whole, its territory, climatic conditions, historical traditions, demographic and economic situation, i.e. to develop a scientific approach to the creation of the National Project of the healthy lifestyle of citizens. The development of the project has to take into consideration the social structure of each municipality, the presence of all age and gender groups, the state of citizens' health and their potential opportunities to engage in particular types of sports, the dynamics and perspective of changes. It is also necessary to take into account the typology of the country's municipalities, i.e. its administrative and territorial structure since Russia is a huge country with extremely diverse specifics of individual territories. In addition, it is necessary to take into consideration the priorities in the choice of mass types of sports for different social groups; providing staffing for physical culture and sports work in the field; developing a system for the promotion of physical culture and sports as an important component of a healthy lifestyle. Of critical importance is also the study of positive practices in this sphere since Russia has a great experience of past and contemporary examples of organizing citizens' healthy lifestyle that have to be generalized and disseminated.