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Healthy cities initiative in China: Progress, challenges, and the way forward

Summary: 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 munic...

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Main Authors: Yuqi Bai (Author), Yutong Zhang (Author), Olena Zotova (Author), Helen Pineo (Author), José Siri (Author), Lu Liang (Author), Xiangyu Luo (Author), Mei-Po Kwan (Author), John Ji (Author), Xiaopeng Jiang (Author), Cordia Chu (Author), Na Cong (Author), Vivian Lin (Author), William Summerskill (Author), Yong Luo (Author), Hongjun Yu (Author), Tinghai Wu (Author), Changhong Yang (Author), Jing Li (Author), Yixiong Xiao (Author), Jingbo Zhou (Author), Dejing Dou (Author), Hui Xiong (Author), Lee Ligang Zhang (Author), Lan Wang (Author), Shu Tao (Author), Bojie Fu (Author), Yong Zhang (Author), Bing Xu (Author), Jun Yang (Author), Peng Gong (Author)
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Published: Elsevier, 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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Summary:Summary: 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.
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10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100539

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