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Journal article assessment: Healthy cities movement
Abstract
The underlying journal article is based on discussing the concept of healthy cities in detailed manner. The main purpose of the journal article is to throw light on the concept of healthy cities and fostering insight on its implication and significance. The journal article has considered the idea of healthy cities movement, origin and development, social and ecological implication, contribution to public health and outlining recommendations for strengthening the concept of healthy cities movement. In this way, underlying journal article has focussed on the concept of healthy cities with the purpose of making reader aware of it and understanding contextual issues such as health promotion, implication on public health, origin of the concept etc.
It is worth mentioning that concept of healthy cities holds immense potential in present scenario as it seeks to emphasise and strengthen the ‘health’ on high sign in political, economic and social agenda of city government. The article has comprehensively discussed the phenomenon of healthy cities for outlining its significance and making reader aware of it. The awareness regarding concept is crucial as it enables reader in engaging in the process of healthy development and contributing in some manner and at the same time taking advantage of it.
Introduction
ackground
a) Defining healthy cities movement:
Healthy cities movement is a global program introduced by WHO in 1986 with the purpose of putting health factor on highest priority in social, economic and political agenda. It is worth mentioning that national, city and local government are in unique leadership position and power to protect, preserve and enhance citizens’ health and well being. This is done in lieu of the belief that citizens’ health and its promotion is the utmost factor to be taken care of by government of all sectors for advancing nation’s growth and development. For this, WHO has formed WHO European Healthy Cities Network having 100 cities as members and established 30 national healthy cities networks serving more than 1400 cities and towns (WHO: Healthy cities, 2017).
) Socio-ecological model of health justice
The social ecological model is a theory based framework outlining social, personal and environmental factors affecting health promotions in a city or setting. In simple words, this theoretical framework takes into account economic and social conditions impacting health promotion, protection and sustainable development of society. It is necessary for decision makers to take into account these factors for formulating health protection and sustainable development strategies. It necessitates fostering the element of justice in process of formulating and implementing health promotions strategies and policies. It is argued as health promotions policies and strategies are highly biased prefe
ing one group or category over other. This theoretical framework asks for avoiding and eliminating any kind of injustice prevailing in formulation of health promotion strategies and policies ensuring that societal people are benefitted in equitable terms (Promoting health and equity – evidence for local policy and practice, 2014).
c) Interaction of healthy cities movement with public health, social determinants
The interaction of healthy cities movement with public health and social determinants take place in a manner demonstrating commitment for improving political, economic and social arenas. It is not possible through focussing on health infrastructure only, rather than, commitment for improving city’s environmental conditions facilitating people living a healthy life in every possible manner. Within healthy cities movement, public health is a major determinant takes into account every factor impacting public health in any manner (Shortliffe & Cimino, 2013).
It is a
oader movement for understanding public health and identifying risk factors impacting health actions and addressing determinants for keeping people healthy. The healthy cities approach has paid strong focus on seeking individuals’ participation in decision making and empowering them through providing adequate authority and autonomy for living a health life and making decisions with regard to it. This interaction takes place in several stages-creating healthy-supportive environments, achieving good quality of life, providing basic sanitation & hygiene needs and improving accessibility to health care (Shi & Singh, 2011).
d) Aim of the article
The aim of the article is to develop awareness among readers regarding healthy cities project initiated by WHO. The government should depict strong political commitment for
inging changes and improvements in prevailing health status of citizens and fostering conducive environment facilitating smooth life. The underlying article aims at enabling reader understanding that there is comprehensive and systematic policy planning for promoting health through emphasising on removing inequality in health and u
an poverty and addressing needs of vulnerable groups adequately (Hoff, Sutcliffe & Young, 2016).
Healthy cities movement
a) Origins of healthy cities movement
The healthy cities movement was originated in 1984 in Canada at a conference titled ‘Beyond Health Care’. The movement was initiated for developing awareness among public for healthy living approaches and leaving victim blaming lifestyle. There are several emerging risks in u
an environment posing threat to health, such as violence and accidents which need to be adequately addressed. Two years later, new...