The influence of COVID-19 on the practice of physical activity in the European Union countries.

Objective: Analyze how pandemics contribute to the increase in social inequalities in the health sector.

Method: Data are taken from Eurobarometer 97.3.

Ageing, Leisure Time Physical Activity and Health in Europe.

The goal of this article is to analyse leisure time physical activity (LTPA) and health-driven motivations to engage in such activity among elderly people in the European Union. We use as a base the recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the theory of the correlation between physical activity according to individual factors (age, gender, socio-economic status) and contextual factors (habitat, community infrastructures, the model of the welfare state of the country of residence). Data are taken from Eurobarometer 88.