The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a statement on state-encouraged exercise under the title “Fair Play: Building a strong physical activity system for more active people.” The pandemic, it reads, has “exposed vulnerabilities and inequities in opportunities for communities and people to be active,” and therefore physically and mentally fit. Present government programs for physical activity, or “PA systems,” are “fragmented, uneven and unfair” and therefore “require collective action from all stakeholders at all levels to deliver sustained communication campaigns, supportive environments, and access to programmes and services for all people” regardless of their “age, gender, ability, socio-economic status or geography.” As a first step, the WHO proposes “understanding how financing mechanisms and regulatory frameworks must align.” This and other matters are detailed in an advocacy brief available online. 

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