PurposeSchool health education is an effective strategy for cultivating adolescent physical exercise habits by transmitting healthy knowledge; it helps to form healthy behaviours and encourages students to participate in physical exercise. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between school health education and student participation in physical exercise.MethodsCEPS (China Education Penal Survey, 2014–2015) survey data were used to empirically analyse the impact of school health education on the time that students spend on physical exercise and the underlying mechanism of influence.ResultsThe results showed that receiving a school health education increased the time that students spent on physical exercise. 1) Compared with receiving health education in only primary school or secondary school, receiving health education in both primary and secondary school had a greater impact on students spending time on physical exercise. 2) Receiving a school health education improved the time that students spend on physical exercise by improving students’ health perception and their sports interests. 3) Receiving a school health education had a more obvious impact on the physical exercise time of male students, nonrural resident students, and students from multi-child households. These findings can provide a reference for the seasonable settings of health education curriculum in schools.

The existing research on residents’ health care consumption mostly covers medical care consumption and seldom regards residents’ health care consumption as an independent research object. This article takes residents' healthcare consumption as the research object and aims to explore the impact of socioeconomic status on healthcare consumption and its mechanisms. The data of this study came from the 2018-China Family Panel Studies (CFPS). The binary probit regression model and the Tobit model explored the impact mechanism of residents’ income, education, occupation, and physical activity on health care consumption decision-making and health care expenditure, respectively. The research results showed that, from the perspective of the direct influence mechanism, residents’ work income (0.029, p < 0.01) and education level (811.149, p < 0.01) had a significant positive impact on health care consumption. Residents whose occupations (−99.697, p < 0.01) tend to be more skilled and also have higher health care consumption. From the perspective of the mediating mechanism, residents' physical exercise duration had a significant positive impact on their participation in healthcare consumption (0.005, p < 0.01) but had a weaker impact on healthcare consumption expenditure (21.678, p < 0.1). In general, socioeconomic status represented by income, education, and occupation had a significant positive impact on residents’ health care consumption. The duration of physical exercise also played an important mediating role.

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PurposeThe popularization of the internet has promoted the implementation of China's national fitness strategy and created conditions for Chinese residents to participate in sports. The internet is an essential medium for disseminating sports knowledge, and the use of the internet can change sport participation behaviors. Therefore, the internet can be used to popularize sports knowledge and promote the participation of all people in sports and thus improve the health of the entire population. This study attempts to empirically analyse how the use of the internet changes sport participation behavior.MethodUtilizing data from the 2017 China General Social Survey, a probit model, ivprobit model, and bias-corrected non-parametric percentile bootstrap test were used to analyse the impact of internet use on sport participation behavior.ResultsThe empirical results show that internet use significantly increased the probability of participation in sports by Chinese residents. Heterogeneity test results showed that internet use was more effective in promoting sport participation in middle-aged groups, groups of older persons, unmarried groups, and groups with a high school education or above. The mediating effect test results showed that internet use influenced residents' participation in sports by promoting social interaction, leisure and entertainment, and learning and recharging.ConclusionsThe internet has changed participation in sports; specifically, the use of the internet promotes sport participation. Additionally, internet use has a more obvious impact on improving the sport participation behavior of middle-aged, older, unmarried, and middle- and higher-educated individuals. Internet social interaction, internet entertainment and internet learning are effective channels to encourage Chinese residents to participate in sports and improve their health.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected physical and mental health around the world, and an increasing number of groups are seeking important means to improve individual health. The fitness, social, and economic functions that sports possess have attracted widespread attention. Methods: This article used data from the China General Social Survey (CGSS2017). This article divides multidimensional health into three aspects: mental health, physical health and social health. By constructing a binary logistic model, this paper intends to address two theoretical hypotheses: 1) participation in physical exercise significantly improves the multidimensional health of urban and rural residents, and 2) socioeconomic status plays a mediating role in the process of physical exercise promoting the health of urban and rural residents. Result: After including independent and control variables, the results of Model (1) indicate that participation in physical exercise can significantly improve the mental health of urban and rural residents (p=0.000 < 0.01), and the OR value (odds ratio=exp0.159) is 1.172. Model (3) results indicate that participation in physical exercise significantly improves the physical health of individuals (p=0.000 < 0.01), and the OR (odds ratio=exp0.239) is 1.270. Model (5) results indicate that participation in physical exercise significantly improves social health (p=0.000<0.01), and the OR (odds ratio=exp0.305) is 1.357. Hypothesis 1 was verified. The establishment of a mediating effect test model showed that participation in physical activity improves individuals' multidimensional health by improving their socioeconomic status, that socioeconomic status is a mediating path for participation in physical activity to improve individuals' multidimensional health, and that it is a partially mediating path. Hypothesis 2 was verified. Conclusion: Participation in physical exercise can significantly improve the multidimensional health of individuals, and this effect is heterogeneous for groups with different household, marital, regional, and educational levels; participation in physical exercise can significantly increase the possibility of individuals improving their socioeconomic status; and socioeconomic status plays a mediating role in the process of participating in physical exercise to improve the multidimensional health of individuals.