WHO EUROPEAN HEALTHY CITY NETWORK

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• WHO EUROPEAN HEALTHY CITY NETWORK
• PHASE IV 2003-2008
• Dave Leonard, Sunderland City Council

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PRESENTATION INTENT

• To provide a background to WHO Healthy City
  Network
• To provide information on local actions involving
  the 4 key objectives
• To consider local processes for engaging WHO
  Healthy City actions
• To identify actions and opportunities for taking
  forward the WHO and European agenda
• Healthy City link - http//www.euro.who.int

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WHAT IS A WHO EUROPEAN HEALTHY CITY?

• A healthy city is not one which has achieved a
  particular health status.
• A healthy city is one that is continually
  creating and improving the physical and social
  environments and expanding the community
  resources that enable people to mutually support
  each other in performing all the functions of
  life and in developing to their maximum
  potential.
• What is required is a commitment to health and a
  process and structure to achieve it.

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WHO OVERARCHING ELEMENTS

•  Addressing the determinants of health and the
  principles of health for all
• Integrating and promoting European and global
  public health priorities
•   Placing health on the social and political
  agendas of cities and
•   Promoting good governance and
  partnership-based planning for health.

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UK HEALTHY CITIES

• Sunderland
• Newcastle
• Manchester
• Liverpool
• Stoke
• Sheffield
• Brighton
• Glasgow
• Stirling
• Belfast

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PHASE IV WHO OBJECTIVES

• Healthy Urban Planning
• Healthy Ageing
• Health Impact Assessment
• Physical Activity and Active Lifestyles (an
  addition to the original programme)

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WHO EUROPEAN HEALTHY CITY SYSTEMS

• Annual Business Meeting
• National Networks
• Sub Network Meetings
• UK Network of Healthy City
• Co-ordinators
• Local Co-ordination

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WHO ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING

• Joint Business Sessions Phase IV Network and
  National Networks
• Plenary Core Themes Healthy Ageing and Healthy
  Urban Planning, Health Impact Assessments,
  Migrant Populations
• Parallel SessionsCase studies on the themes
• Politicians Meetings City commitments and
  planning for the future

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WHO SUB NETWORK MEETINGS HEALTHY URBAN PLANNING

• Introducing HUP ideas in the city
• Identifying HUP projects with cross-cutting scope
  such projects relating to transport,
  neighbourhoods, children, older people and
  overall future city plans
• Identifying and developing tools for HUP
  (including applying Health Impact Assessment
  processes in HUP)

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WHO SUB NETWORK MEETINGS HEALTHY URBAN PLANNING

• Local examples include engaging Health into the
  Local Development Framework process, inclusion in
  the amendments to the existing UDP, developing a
  Walkability Index relating to planning
  applications, inclusion of health into the Port
  of Sunderland Regeneration Framework

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WHO SUB NETWORK MEETINGS HEALTHY URBAN PLANNING

• Milan - Lead City
• Brighton Hove
• Bursa
• Glasgow
• Kadikoy
• Kuopio
• Liverpool
• Lodz

• Manchester
• Pecs
• San Fernando de Henares
• Sandnes
• Seixal
• Sheffield
• Stoke-on-Trent

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WHO SUB NETWORK MEETINGS HEALTHY AGEING

• Profiles for healthy ageing
• Increased awareness of healthy ageing concept and
  visibility for WHO in cities
• Case studies
• Training courses and resource materials
• DG SANCO paper on EU member state policies for
  older people
• Connecting the Phase IV themes of Healthy Ageing,
  Healthy Urban Planning, Health Impact Assessment
  and Active Living

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WHO SUB NETWORK MEETINGS HEALTHY AGEING

• Improved evidence base
• The Solid Facts of Healthy Ageing booklet
• Booklet on media advocacy on ageing issues
• Guidelines on healthy urban planning and ageing.

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WHO SUB NETWORK MEETINGS HEALTHY AGEING

• Stockholm - Lead City
• Arezzo
• Aydin
• Brighton
• Brno
• Celje
• Eskisehir-Tepebasi
• Gyor
• Jerusalem

• Liege
• Newcastle
• Padua
• Rijeka
• Stirling
• Sunderland
• Turin
• Udine
• Vienna

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HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT

• WHO HIA toolkit developed
• Training the trainers events
• HIA for beginners events
• Cities aligned to the HIA objective developing
  case studies to share with network

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HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT

• Belfast - Lead City
• Bologna
• Copenhagen
• Geneva
• Helsingborg

• Ljubljana
• Turin
• Turku
• Yalova

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WHO SUB NETWORK MEETINGS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND
ACTIVE LIFESTYLE

• Physical activity and health in Europe evidence
  for action report November 2006
• Promoting physical activity and active living in
  urban environments. The role of local
  governments. The Solid Facts

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LOCAL CO-ORDINATION

• Local Strategic Partnership Structures
• Public Health Forum
• Healthy City Executive Group
• Older Persons Action Group
• Attractive and Accessible City Thematic
  Partnership

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REGIONAL CO-ORDINATION

• Currently nothing centred with a North East Focus
• Opportunities through European funding and the
  provision of ready made networks eg
• - National UK Network
• - Thematic networks Planning/Ageing/
  HIA/Physical Activity
• - Access to a European Network
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REGIONAL CO-ORDINATION

• Public health, air and water quality initiatives
• Workforce development initiatives linked to
  sector skill demands
• Joint medical and clinical research
• Lifestyle initiatives
• Networks between local and health authorities
  focusing on healthy ageing, worklessness,
  regional health issues and physical activity.

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LOCAL CONTACTS

• Dave Leonard, Area Co-ordination and Health Team
  Lead, Sunderland City Council
• Tel. [phone]
• E-mail dave.leonard_at_sunderland.gov.uk
• Bob Stewart, Chief Executive, Newcastle Healthy
  City Project
• Tel. [phone]
• E- mail BobStewart_at_newcastlehealthycity.org.uk

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WHO EUROPEAN HEALTHY CITY NETWORK PHASE IV
2003-2008 THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION ANY
QUESTIONS?