Can healthy cities be made really healthy?

Strategies such as the Healthy Cities project aim to place health at the centre of urban interventions.1 Such programmes seek to create cities with adequate housing and public transportation, quality health care, and safe places to exercise and play. However, these common transversal approaches also...

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Autores: Cole, Helen|||0000-0003-0936-6810, Shokry, Galia|||0000-0002-2959-3677, Connolly, James J. T.|||0000-0002-7363-8414, Pérez-del-Pulgar, Carmen|||0000-0001-8331-2365, Alonso, Jordi|||0000-0001-8627-9636, Anguelovski, Isabelle|||0000-0002-6409-5155
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:181413
Acesso em linha:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/181413
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1016/S2468-2667(17)30166-4
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Green gentrification
Health inequalities
Environmental health
Health promotion
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Resumo:Strategies such as the Healthy Cities project aim to place health at the centre of urban interventions.1 Such programmes seek to create cities with adequate housing and public transportation, quality health care, and safe places to exercise and play. However, these common transversal approaches also carry a risk of perverse effects, especially when the effect of market-oriented regulatory processes and uneven dynamics of policy formation are not considered. As a result, the Healthy Cities project and similar approaches, such as the WHO's promoted Health in All Policies, might in some cases bolster rather than reduce established trends toward urban social and health inequities.