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REVIEW article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Policy
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1415513
This article is part of the Research Topic Exploring the Interaction between Health-promoting and Health Risk Behaviors in Health, Volume II View all 16 articles

A Historical Review of Promotions of Physical Activity for Adolescents in China from 1949 to 2020

Provisionally accepted
Guocheng Gao Guocheng Gao 1Jingxuan Liu Jingxuan Liu 2Mingyue Xu Mingyue Xu 1Rui Xia Rui Xia 1Lunan Zhao Lunan Zhao 1*
  • 1 School of Sports Science, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China
  • 2 Physical Education College, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Jinan, China

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    Promotions of physical exercise for adolescents have become key elements of the country’s national sports and health campaigns in China. Specifically, these promotions have gone through four stages including Initial Institutionalization, Standardization and Legalization, Solidification and Publicization, and Comprehensiveness and Diversification, which are interpreted based on the Multiple Streams Framework with discussions of the role and dynamism of the problem streams, political streams, and policy streams included. The results reveal that the political streams, reified by the will of the governing party and the central government in particular, play a leading role in policy transformations. Consequently, identifications of existing problems and subsequent adoption of proper measures emerge as the key to generating policy developments in the promotion of physical exercise for adolescents in China.

    Keywords: China, Youth, Promotions of physical activity, policy agenda, Policy transformation Framework Theory, Punctuated-Equilibrium Theory, Policy Diffusion Theory (13),

    Received: 10 Apr 2024; Accepted: 12 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Gao, Liu, Xu, Xia and Zhao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Lunan Zhao, School of Sports Science, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China

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