ABSTRACT
The Healthy Cities initiative was originally an attempt by WHO/Euro to implement
the Health For All (HFA) strategy and health promotion programme through
bypassing national governments and implementing HFA at a local level and in a
specific setting, in this case, the city (Curtice and McQueen, 1990). The resulting
Healthy Cities Project has had a major influence on the development of a settings
approach towards health policy and health programmes, and has gained root
worldwide in a variety of forms. It has spawned a vast range of community based
projects and a huge variety of health promotion work from small scale undertakings
to the development of healthy public policy at a city wide level (Poland, 1996).
