Vantaa is creating a physical activity programme – join in and make a difference!

Physical inactivity and immobility are affecting an increasing number of people and will continue to do so. For example, information work, increased remote work opportunities and digitalisation have reduced the need to move around in everyday life.

The urban structure and planning or winter maintenance often also favour public transport or cars instead of walking or cycling.

Solutions for daily physical activity

In Vantaa, solutions to the challenges of immobility are now being sought by creating a physical activity programme. The aim is to create goals and a plan for the city’s key services to promote the physical activity of all residents.

Everyone in Vantaa is welcome to contribute to the physical activity programme. The work requires the involvement of not only non-governmental organisations and companies but also all residents.

What makes you move in your daily life?

At a residents’ event to be held in the spring, the people of Vantaa will have the opportunity to influence the physical activity programme and talk about small actions that promote everyday exercise and physical activity.

In addition, a resident survey will be carried out in connection with the programme, to be opened at osallistuvavantaa.fi in summer 2023. You can follow the progress of the programme work at vantaa.fi/liikkumisohjelma.

Physical activity protects your health:

• More than 40% of the 5th- and 8th-graders in Vantaa have a level of physical functional capacity that harms their well-being.
• Secondary school pupils spend nearly nine of their waking hours sitting or lying down.
• Most adults in Vantaa do not exercise enough for their own health.
• Exercise and physical activity have been proven to strengthen mental health and the ability to cope with everyday life and reduce the risk of many national diseases.

^{This article was published in Resident magazine 1/2023. Read the other articles on the resident magazine home page!}