Healthy Cities The Theory, Policy, and Practice of Value-Based Urban
This forward-looking resource recasts the concept of healthy cities as not only a safe, pleasant, and green built environment, but also one that creates and sustains health by addressing social, economic, and political conditions. It describes collaborati
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Healthy Cities The Theory, Policy, and Practice of Value-Based Urban Planning
Healthy Cities
Evelyne de Leeuw • Jean Simos Editors
Healthy Cities The Theory, Policy, and Practice of Value-Based Urban Planning
Editors Evelyne de Leeuw Centre for Health Equity Training Research & Evaluation (CHETRE) University of New South Wales South Western Sydney Local Health District Ingham Institute Liverpool, NSW, Australia
Jean Simos Institute of Global Health University of Geneva Campus Biotech Geneva, Switzerland
ISBN 978-1-4939-6692-9 ISBN 978-1-4939-6694-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-6694-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016956250 © Springer Science+Business Media LLC 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer Science+Business Media LLC The registered company address is: 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, U.S.A.
Foreword: Healthy Cities Is Political and It Works
Over my 30-year international public health career, there have been countless reminders to our partners and stakeholders that health is not only the absence of disease, that health is everybody’s business, and that health is essential for social and sustainable development. At WHO, we had hoped that our increasingly strong and compelling evidence on the determinants of health and the root causes of health inequalities would catapult us to unstoppable action, but the reality proved otherwise. Science alone and preaching to the converted do not make change happen. Today we finally speak of health as a political choice. It is about the kind of society we want to live in. It is about the values that we wish to crown our visions and policies. Embracing health and equity as a whole-of-government goal is the premise for an intersectoral frame of cooperation where everyone addresses the question: what can you do for health and what health can do for you? A minister of health is d
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