Healthy lifestyles

The election manifesto requires that children and young people get municipally supported leisure activities and connects health to class, which aligns with a comprehensive action plan for eating habits and physical activity. The plan emphasizes, however, that the responsibility is politics' rather than the individual's, which makes the emphasis on parental engagement a secondary part. The substance requirement for an action plan for public health is supported.

• supported leisure activities for childrendecisive»Ge barn och ungdomar möjligheter till kommunalt stödda fritidsaktiviteter, ge skolan bättre resurser för att stödja elever som behöver det för att klara betygen och förstärk socialtjänsten med tillräckliga resurser och kunskap för att arbeta både förebyggande och med barnskydd.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Give children and young people opportunities for municipally supported leisure activities, give schools better resources to support students who need it to keep up with grades and strengthen social services with adequate resources and knowledge to work both preventively and with child protection.”
• class determines health»Precis som att klass påverkar människor i en pandemi, påverkar klass vår livslängd och möjlighet till ett bra liv utanför en pandemi.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Just as class affects people in a pandemic, class affects our lifespan and opportunity for a good life outside a pandemic.”
• political responsibility before individual responsibility»Det är politikens, och inte individens, ansvar att skapa möjligheter för människor att välja enkla och billiga klimatsmarta alternativ.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“It is politics', not the individual's, responsibility to create opportunities for people to choose simple and cheap climate-smart alternatives.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan establishes that access to leisure activities in sports and culture needs to increase and that parents' wallets shall not decide, which is the same thing the counter-proposal wants to achieve for children's movement and eating habits. The plan also sees school, care and welfare as decisive for the distribution of life chances and binds decisions to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. A national action plan for physical activity and eating habits therefore lies in the plan's direction.

• increased access to leisure activitiesdecisive»Tillgången till fritidsaktiviteter till rimliga kostnader, både vad gäller idrott och kultur, behöver öka. Föräldrarnas plånbok ska inte avgöra.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Access to leisure activities at reasonable costs, for both sports and culture, needs to increase. Parents' wallets shall not decide.”
• the Convention on the Rights of the Child guides decisions»Alla barn ska ha rätt till en trygg uppväxt i enlighet med FN:s barnkonvention.« (party programme ↗)“Every child has the right to a safe upbringing in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.”
• welfare distributes life chances»Skola, vård och omsorg har en central roll för fördelningen av möjligheter i livet.« (party programme ↗)“School, care and welfare have a central role in the distribution of life opportunities.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The party programme wants to see a long-term public health investment with a national public health programme and more targeted health-promoting work. Physical activity is explicitly highlighted as important for public health and grassroots sport is seen as an investment in public health. A comprehensive action plan for diet and physical activity is in line with this, even though the plan does not mention such a plan.

• long-term public health investmentdecisive»Vi menar att en långsiktig satsning på folkhälsa« (party programme ↗)“We believe that a long-term public health investment”
• physical activity for public health»Fysisk rörelse är viktig för folkhälsan och välbefinnandet.« (party programme ↗)“Physical activity is important for public health and wellbeing.”
• targeted health-promoting work»arbeta långt mer målinriktat med hälsofrämjande« (party programme ↗)“work much more purposefully with health-promoting”
• grassroots sport as public health investment»investerar vi i såväl livskvalitet som folkhälsa.« (party programme ↗)“we invest in both quality of life and public health.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The party programme makes preventive work a prerequisite for sustainable welfare and establishes that the public health perspective must permeate the whole of society. An action plan for eating habits and physical activity for children and adults is precisely such a broad preventive initiative. The election manifesto's view of sport's and outdoor recreation's significance for public health points the same way.

• preventive public health workdecisive»En förutsättning för en hållbar välfärd är ett förebyggande förhållningssätt.« (party programme ↗)“A prerequisite for sustainable welfare is a preventive approach.”
• public health across society»Folkhälsoperspektivet måste genomsyra hela samhället för att ge resultat.« (party programme ↗)“The public health perspective must permeate the whole of society to produce results.”
• sport and exercise for public health»Idrotten, friluftslivets och kulturens betydelse för folkhälsan är odiskutabel.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The importance of sport, outdoor recreation and culture for public health is indisputable.”
• personal responsibility for health»individer ska kunna ta ansvar för sitt välbefinnande, sin hälsa och livsstil« (party programme ↗)“individuals shall be able to take responsibility for their wellbeing, their health and lifestyle”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan establishes that it is the individual who shall take responsibility for their own health and lifestyle habits, and that public health measures shall be guided by the individual's own motivation. A state action plan for diet and physical activity for both children and adults thus lies outside the plan's line, which rather prefers support and knowledge than collective plans for everyday life. The conclusion is derived from general public health principles, not from an explicit commitment.

• individual self-determination guidesdecisive»Den enskildes motivation ska styra alla insatser som erbjuds.« (party programme ↗)“The individual's motivation shall guide all measures offered.”
• personal responsibility for lifestyle habits»ta ansvar för sin egen hälsa och sina levnadsvanor« (party programme ↗)“take responsibility for their own health and lifestyle habits”
• support over direction»sjukvården ska erbjuda stöd för förändringar av levnadsvanor.« (party programme ↗)“healthcare shall offer support for lifestyle changes.”

The election manifesto promises strongly strengthened student health with unified child and youth healthcare and parental support programmes for all parents, which hits the counter-proposal's requirement for an action plan with greater parental engagement. The party programme further states that health-promoting work shall be stimulated and that physical activity and sports shall be promoted. The requirement for a particular action plan for eating habits and physical activity is thus in the plan's direction, although the form is not specified.

• parental support and student healthdecisive»Kraftigt stärkt elevhälsa med en sammanhållen barn- och ungdomshälsovård och föräldrastödsprogram som erbjuds alla föräldrar.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Strongly strengthened student health with unified child and youth healthcare and parental support programmes offered to all parents.”
• health-promoting work»Hälsofrämjande arbete ska stimuleras.« (party programme ↗)“Health-promoting work shall be stimulated.”
• sports and physical activity promoted»Hälsa, motion och olika former av idrott ska främjas och stödjas av kommunerna.« (party programme ↗)“Health, physical activity and various forms of sport shall be promoted and supported by municipalities.”
• physical activity at school»eleverna engageras i motions- och idrottsaktiviteter.« (party programme ↗)“pupils are engaged in physical activity and sports activities.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan lacks commitments about eating habits and physical activity and instead emphasizes that politics must prioritize its core task and choose not to do other things, and that everyone has personal responsibility for their health. A new national action plan for both children's and adults' living habits is an expanded public commitment of exactly the sort the documents are restrictive toward. The counter-proposal's emphasis on parental responsibility, however, lies close to the plan, which dampens the distance.

• politics must prioritizedecisive»Politiken har en viktig uppgift att prioritera och välja bort,« (party programme ↗)“Politics has an important task to prioritize and choose not to do things,”
• personal responsibility for health»Men inte ens en sjukvård i världsklass kan ersätta det egna« (party programme ↗)“But not even world-class healthcare can replace one's own”
• hard prioritizations required»De stora behoven inom rättsväsendet, försvaret och välfärden ställer stora krav på prioriteringar under åren som kommer.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The great needs within the justice system, defence and welfare place great demands on prioritizations in the years to come.”
• strengthened parental responsibility»Betona och förstärka föräldraansvaret« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Emphasize and strengthen parental responsibility”

The plan sees sport and physical activity as a cheap and effective public health tool and wants to increase physical education in school and stimulate children's and youth sport. It particularly points out increasing sedentariness in all age groups as a public health threat. The party programme furthermore highlights the importance of diet for health. The counter-proposal's demand for an action plan for eating habits and physical activity for children and adults follows from these commitments.

• more sport for children and youthdecisive»Idrottsundervisningen bör öka i skolan och fritidsbaserad barn- och ungdomsidrott bör stimuleras.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Physical education instruction should increase in school and leisure-based children's and youth sport should be stimulated.”
• sport as a public health measure»Att stimulera idrotten är ett billigt sätt att förbättra den fysiska och psykiska hälsan i samhället och bidrar till sammanhållning mellan dess invånare.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Stimulating sport is a cheap way to improve physical and mental health in society and contributes to cohesion between its inhabitants.”
• counter sedentariness»Stillasittandet har samtidigt under en längre tid ökat i alla åldrar de senaste åren med följden att folkhälsan riskerar att påverkas negativt.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Sedentariness has meanwhile over a longer period increased in all age groups in recent years with the consequence that public health risks being negatively affected.”
• diet's importance for health»Maten vi äter har en stor inverkan på vår hälsa och livskvalitet.« (party programme ↗)“The food we eat has a major impact on our health and quality of life.”