Medical and Biological Efficiency of Health Tourism Among Youth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5967773 |
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| Authors | Leonid S Khodasevich (0000-0003-4676-0972, Sochi State University), M Romanov, С М Романов (Sochi State University), Antonina V Polyakova (0000-0003-1796-4546, Sochi State University), A A Malyshev, Andrey Valentinovich Malyshev (0000-0001-8538-5656, Sochi State University) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-18 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ekologiya Cheloveka (Human Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1728-0869 • E-ISSN: 2949-1444 |
| Publisher | ECO-Vector LLC (PUBLISHER • RU) |
| DOI | 10.33396/1728-0869-2017-1-9-18 |
| OpenAlex | W2923756158 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Literature review is devoted to medical and biological efficiency of health tourism of modern youth, who are characterized by deterioration of health indicators due to the high prevalence of bad habits, lack of knowledge and inexperience in matters of disease prevention, lack of interest in the implementation of health measures and low level of physical activity. The authors describe health tourism as one of the most effective and attractive means of health improvement due to high availability to the youth and fitness of a big part of the territory of the Russian Federation for tourist activities. They consider it as the basis of a healthy lifestyle able to affect on its quality and duration, as well as disease prevention. Healthcare effect of sports and health tourism is greatly enhanced by the fact that they are carried out mainly in the green forest countryside or urban parkland. Physical activity in the conditions of the forest or parkland landscapes provides favorable effect of flora, bioclimate, topography and the picturesque landscape terrain, aimed at disadaptation prevention and improving the general non-specific resistance. Health tourism is similar in its healthcare effect to a sanatorium resort climate landscape therapy, being actually its variation. The health improvement process in both cases is a highly active motor activity, which improves mental performance, the level of the functional state of the cardiovascular, respiratory and muscular systems, forms a harmonious constitution. Physical activity in the forest or parkland offers a man a rare opportunity to approach nature, observe and appreciate its beauty
Business · Constitution · Disease · Environmental health · Geography · Health care · Health resort · Physical therapy · Political science · Recreation · Sports tourism · Tourism · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Human Health and Disease · Medicine · Nursing · Physical Education and Training Studies · Psychology · Ecology
| Highly cited | No |
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