ABSTRACT

The growth of health promotion as a topic for discussion and a principle for practice is widespread, and affects all groups of health professionals. The Healthy Cities project, like Health for All, was inaugurated by the World Health Organization and has informed policy throughout the world.
Healthy Cities: Research and Practice examines the application of the project in a number of countries. The contributors explore problems in the relationship between policy makers, communities, and academic researchers, and discuss how the Healthy Cities program affects housing policy, community development, scientific interchange and health education. In addition, the Editors, John Davies and Michael Kelly, provide a context by tracing the history of the WHO projects and discuss them in the broader context of scientific and philosohical debates about modernism and post-modernism.
The contributors are drawn from practitioners and scientists with wide experience in the area from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and the United States. Healthy Cities will be invaluable to all those working at community level and in government with an interest in health, as well as students of health promotion.

chapter 1|13 pages

Healthy Cities

Research and practice

chapter 2|11 pages

The Healthy City from concept to application

Implications for research

chapter 3|9 pages

The Healthy Cities project

New developments and research needs

chapter 4|21 pages

Strategies and values

Research and the WHO Healthy Cities project in Europe

chapter 5|16 pages

Walking the tightrope

Issues in evaluation and community participation for Health for All

chapter 6|12 pages

The relationship between research and policy

Translating knowledge into action

chapter 7|7 pages

The ownership of research

chapter 8|22 pages

Noarlunga Healthy Cities Pilot Project

The contribution of research and evaluation

chapter 10|21 pages

Building bridges between knowledge and action

The Canadian process of Healthy Communities indicators

chapter 12|9 pages

Healthy Cities

A modern problem or a post-modern solution?