(Sports Humanities and Social Sciences Research Center,TianjinUniversity of Sport,Tianjin 300381,China) Abstract: By carrying out a social investigation on the degree of satisfaction with health of different types of popu-lation in 14 cities and provinces in China, the authors revealed the following findings: 1) the degree of satisfaction with health of citizens in China is at a low level - the percentage of “Very Satisfied” and “Satisfied” is 59.3%; the degree of satisfaction with expectation for individual health in the future is 70.5%, which is relatively high; com-pared with the degree of satisfaction with other indexes for social development, the degree of satisfaction with “Health of Population in China” is listed the eighteenth in 19 indexes for social development, the second place backward; the lowest degree of satisfaction is “Quality of Population in China”, listed the nineteenth; 2) the higher the satisfaction degree, the higher degree of satisfaction with the society and life; 3) the citizens’ rate of satisfaction with the development of sports activities is much lower than the rate of their expectation for sport and health; about the development of sports activities in China, most of the citizens are in a dissatisfied or unclear state, while the value of their expectation for sport is very high. Key words: sports sociology;citizen health degree of satisfaction;China |