Bai, Yuqi;
Zhang, Yutong;
Zotova, Olena;
Pineo, Helen;
Siri, Jose;
Liang, Lu;
Luo, Xiangyu;
... Gong, Peng; + view all
(2022)
Healthy cities initiative in China: Progress, challenges, and the way forward.
The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific
, 27
, Article 100539. 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100539.
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Abstract
China implemented the first phase of its National Healthy Cities pilot program from 2016-20. Along with related urban health governmental initiatives, the program has helped put health on the agenda of local governments while raising public awareness. Healthy City actions taken at the municipal scale also prepared cities to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. However, after intermittent trials spanning the past two decades, the Healthy Cities initiative in China has reached a crucial juncture. It risks becoming inconsequential given its overlap with other health promotion efforts, changing public health priorities in response to the pandemic, and the partial adoption of the Healthy Cities approach advanced by the World Health Organization (WHO). We recommend aligning the Healthy Cities initiative in China with strategic national and global level agendas such as Healthy China 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by providing an integrative governance framework to facilitate a coherent intersectoral program to systemically improve population health. Achieving this alignment will require leveraging the full spectrum of best practices in Healthy Cities actions and expanding assessment efforts. Funding: Tsinghua-Toyota Joint Research Fund “Healthy city systems for smart cities” program.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Healthy cities initiative in China: Progress, challenges, and the way forward |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100539 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100539 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. under a Creative Commons license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Healthy china, Urban health, Public participation, Impact |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10153972 |
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