Healthy Cities: our cities, our future

Policies and action plans for health and sustainable development

 

Edited by Charles Price and Agis Tsouros

ICP/HCIT/94 01/MT04(A)

Target 14

This publication contains contributions from cities, international organizations and institutions on the themes of health and sustainable development. Perspectives on the issues are provided from the Chair of the Commission on Sustainable Development, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (EFILWC). Examples of innovative policy making and action are mainly drawn from cities belonging to the WHO Healthy Cities project and the Ecological Cities Programme of OECD. Important issues and action at the international level are discussed. The annex includes the report of the International Healthy and Ecological Cities Congress held in Madrid 1995, from which most of the material in the book was selected.

Keywords

URBAN HEALTH	BELGIUM
HEALTH PROMOTION	CUBA
POLICY MAKING	DENMARK
CITY PLANNING	HUNGARY
ECOLOGY	ITALY
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH	JAPAN
CONGRESSES	NETHERLANDS
(4) OECD	POLAND
EUROPE	SPAIN
	UNITED KINGDOM

This document may be freely reviewed or abstracted, but not for commercial purposes. For rights of reproduction, in part or in whole, application should be made to the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Scherfigsvej 8, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. The Regional Office welcomes such applications.

The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

The views expressed in this publication are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the decisions or the stated policy of the World Health Organization.

Our Cities, Our Future: Price, C., Tsouros, A. (ed.)

WHO Healthy Cities Project Office, Copenhagen 1996