How sport can improve chilean life standards

It is proven that sport improves the health of people. The sport improves cardiac efficiency wasting less energy to work, lowers blood pressure and varicose veins, sport allow us lose weight and prevent diabetes. Also the sport have psychological benefits, sport increases the feeling of wellbeing and reduces mental stress.

The Chileans have access to practice sport , everybody can practice inexpensive sports like running, the poor population plays football and basketball in streets. the problem is in the access to rare sport in Chile especially for the poorest people, sports like polo, esgrima or archery are uncommon. I believe that the authorities only promote a few sports, the authorities only build football fields or basketball fields in poorest villages, also only football is broadcast on public television channels. The poorest people who want practice other uncommon sport, can not do it.

I think that many of the common health problems in Chile could be solved if the Chileans do more sport, the public clinics would be less saturated without so many people ill for lack of sport (like diabetics, obese or people with heart problems). Therefore I think that authorities  should do public policies to promote more sports (not only football).