Research On The Protection Of Athletes' Right To Health

With the development of society and economy, the rule of law has maderemarkable progress.More and more people pay attention to the protection of theirlegitimate rights and interests.As a member of society, any athlete,due to thelong-time training and the unpredictable damage, should strengthen protection ofhis/her legitimate rights and interests.In many legitimate rights and interests, thehealth of athletes has been overlooked. With the increase of difficulty in modernsports, players are rapidly becoming more and more competitive. They are under thepressure from all sides. In order to improve the results of the competition rapidly, andto win the gold medal in the game, they will do everything in the game,even whichwill lead to excessive training and cause damage to their physical and mental health.After retiring,some of athletes face huge difficulties on the later life.Therefore, theathletes’ health problem has become the focus of today’s society.Based on the above reasons, this article will discuss about athletes rightprotection from the following aspects. Firstly it analyzes the basic problem of theright to athletes’ health and discusses respectively the basic concept and the basiccharacteristics of the right to health, then the right to health in our country’s legislationand the relationship between athletes and the right to health. Secondly this article willanalyze the current status of athletes’health rights, discussed separately from thecurrent legislative status of athletes’health protection and the problem existing in theimplementation.Then this paper puts forward the cause of these problems that are thedeviation of basic sports values,overtraining, harm of too early training, weak legalawareness, the lack of protection consciousness, imperfection of sports legislation, thelack of systematic protection for athletes’health. Finally as to solve aboveproblems,we should put forward solutions that are the improvement of the legislationof athlete’s health rights and the legal consciousness, the improvement of medicineand health system, health management system and insurance system.