Prevención mediante la actividad física para la salud para controlar o evitar las enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles

Abstract

In the town of Ciudad Bolívar, located south of Bogotá, there are 94.51% of strata 1 and 2 according to the Secretariat of Social Integration, which includes various ethnic groups such as indigenous groups, peasants, Afro-descendants, etc. It is currently one of the largest towns with few resources in Bogotá and a large number of people do not have their own home and have a low-wage job, counting that in 2021 it is in 10.9% of poverty and this year by 5.7% which, due to government and state aid, has been able to overcome the levels of a few local families. The purpose of this project is to promote and provide a contribution through physical activity for health in older adults, seeking to create awareness of the benefits that guided and progressive movement brings to avoid or control the most common chronic non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes and respiratory, which affects this type of population for being so vulnerable. For this reason, physical activity and exercise are shown as important options to adopt healthy lifestyles that allow promoting the use of free time and health care. To intervene in the community of the town of Ciudad Bolívar, we had the support of the Center for Social Projection of the place, a space in which sessions of physical activities focused on conditional and coordinative capacities were carried out. Among the main results obtained, it was found that the participation of the population was increasing little by little, having a good acceptance once the benefits of exercising were made known, thus giving the reactivation of the social projection center (CPS) with a population already stable and may continue to increase.