Healthy Cities: Research and Practice

by Davies; John K

• ISBN13: 9780415077927
• ISBN10: 0415077923
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1993-12-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The WHO inaugurated 'Healthy Cities' project has had an enormous impact on community development, health education and housing policies in cities all over the world. This book carefully evaluates the successes and failures of the scheme so far.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Foreword
Preface
Healthy Cities: research and practice	p. 1
The Healthy City from concept to application: implications for research	p. 14
The Healthy Cities project: new developments and research needs	p. 25
Strategies and values: research and the WHO Healthy Cities project in Europe	p. 34
Walking the tightrope: issues in evaluation and community participation for Health for All	p. 55
The relationship between research and policy: translating knowledge into action	p. 71
The ownership of research	p. 83
Noarlunga Healthy Cities Pilot Project: the contribution of research and evaluation	p. 90
Healthy Cities within the American context	p. 112
Building bridges between knowledge and action: the Canadian process of Healthy Communities indicators	p. 127
Evaluating the Healthy Cities Project in Drumchapel, Glasgow	p. 148
Healthy Cities: a modern problem or a post-modern solution?	p. 159
References	p. 168
Index	p. 179
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