Q. Some people say that the best way to improve public health is by increasing the number of sports facilities. Others, however, say that this would have little effect on public health and that other measures are required. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

Enhancing public health has been main concern for many countries which are struggling to find a better way to improve people’s health. Some people believe that the increasing number of sports complexes have hugely contributed to make people more healthy whereas other people believe that we have to come up with a variety of ways to improve people’s health.

Firstly, there is no denying that the effort to construct more facilities where people is able to exercise easily and freely have significanly affected on the improvement of public health. However the effort sometimes turn out to be futile owing to the lack of the information with regard to how to use the facilities and the promotion of people’s awareness. Thus I am strongly convinced that we have to make an effort to build many sports complexes as well as develop many methods to distribute the information effectively.

Secondly, it is believed by some that such way to build many sports facilities is not sufficent enough to make a substantial impact on the enhancement of public health, thus we have to find other ways to contribute to the improvement of public health. A very representative other measure is to subsidize the expense of using the commercial sports facilities so that people feel less burden to utilize those facilities. Obvioulsy, this way will be conducive to the people who are reluctant to pay the money for sports facilities, which will lead to attract more people to the facilities. Hence it is very important to know how people feel about the idea that we devised to make the plan more effective.

In conclusion, we have reviewed several methods in addition to the building of more sports complexes. From this review, we can reach the conclusion that the sole plan to expand sports facilities will not bring any significant change to the improvement of public health. Therefore it is meaningful to consider other measures as well to see improvement on public health.