The Healthy Exercise Project of Kainuu and Karelia

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The concept of healthy exercise refers to exercise and physical activities, which have a benefi cial eff ect on health. Healthy exercise is part of everyone’s own voluntary and active health care. Healthy exercise has physical, social and mental impacts. By increasing exercise, it is possible to make signifi cant improvements in people’s activity levels, health and well-being as well as in the prevention of disease. Th e purpose of the project was the development of active methods and cooperation with healthy exercise in order to improve the well-being and health of the working population. Implementation networks for the design, management and guidance in functional regional and local health exercise were planned to be functioning in Kainuu and Segezha in 2004, which would actively maintain and develop healthy exercise and other activities maintaining the ability to work and improving the health of the working population. Th e project’s eventual aim was the improvement of the health and well-being by exercise of the residents of Kainuu in Finland and Segezha in Russia.

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