It is a priority and urgent to act and implement public policies that allow health personnel to prescribe physical activity in a regulated manner. The health system will not be sustainable in the medium and long term if it only focuses on treating or curing diseases.

By 2030, the number of non-communicable diseases and mental health problems (hypertension, type 2 diabetes, heart attacks, different types of cancer, depression, dementia...) will have an incidence of more than 500 million new cases worldwide and with an associated cost in health systems of almost 500,000 million euros, according to the latest study recently published in the scientific journal, Lancet Global Health. The main way in which increasing levels of physical activity can save economic costs focuses mainly on three aspects: reducing the number of hospitalizations, reducing premature mortality, and reducing sick leave. In this context, public authorities must be urged to implement these measures decisively and with absolute conviction, since scientific evidence strongly supports this. According to the Australian expert, to all these, we must add the social benefits. Insufficient training in aspects related to the prescription of physical exercise for the population is a problem that exists. Not all physical exercise is equal, and dosage, individualized prescription, and level of supervision are critical factors. As an example, from 2022, the autonomous communities have the possibility of implementing the Physical Activity and Exercise Prescription Plan (in some communities also known as "sports prescriptions”). This plan seeks to strengthen and promote programs that were already being carried out before that date and to promote new ones in those territories where actions of this type had not yet been undertaken and consolidated. On the other hand, economic measures are possible. The possibility of applying a reduced VAT in sports centers and/or sports services intended for the population with and without assimilated health problems is possible. It has been observed that when the doctor recommends physical exercise and the person takes it to be carried out on their own, a 3% reduction in fragility is achieved. But when a sports physical educator designs the individualized program, supervises it in person, and executes it in a clinical setting, the reduction in frailty that is obtained reaches 33%.