Healthy Cities

Research and Practice

John K Davies, Michael Kelly, John K Davies, Michael Kelly

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136132520
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Also available from Routledge
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• 1 Healthy Cities: research and practice
• 2 The Healthy City from concept to application: implications for research
• 3 The Healthy Cities project: new developments and research needs
• 4 Strategies and values: research and the WHO Healthy Cities project in Europe
• 5 Walking the tightrope: issues in evaluation and community participation for Health for All
• 6 The relationship between research and policy: translating knowledge into action
• 7 The ownership of research
• 8 Noarlunga Healthy Cities Pilot Project: the contribution of research and evaluation
• 9 Healthy Cities within the American context
• 10 Building bridges between knowledge and action: the Canadian process of Healthy Communities indicators
• 11 Evaluating the Healthy Cities Project in Drumchapel, Glasgow
• 12 Healthy Cities: a modem problem or a post-modem solution?
• References
• Index