Abstract
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations propose to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”, and to achieve this goal requires that countries strengthen their capacity to manage health risks. As a concept to describe urban construction, advocated by the World Health Organization, healthy cities can effectively solve the contradictions existing along the current urban development path at a macro level. A healthy city is a sustainable city that interacts with its environment, economy, population, services, and space, and realizes the well-being of its population from all perspectives. The construction of a healthy city is an important part of the transformation of Chinese urbanization. This article refers to the index systems of domestic and foreign government agencies, along with a literature research, to construct a healthy city evaluation index that takes into account the five aspects of environment, economy, population, service, and space, and selects Beijing (a policy-oriented city), Shanghai (an economy-oriented city), Nanchang (an industry-oriented city), Guiyang (a tourism-oriented city), Datong (resource-oriented city) as five cities according to type of urban development, using the entire-array-polygon method to analyze the construction level of these cities in terms of environment, economy, population, service, space and overall state of health from 2014 to 2018 based on statistical and land use data. The results of the study found that, in general, the construction of healthy cities in China currently experiences large year-to-year fluctuations and significant differences between cities. The construction and development of healthy cities are also closely related to factors such as urban economic strength, social welfare, and policy support.
Highlights
Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, Beijing 100094, China
Based on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and previous literature research, this paper introduces the concept of sustainable development into the evaluation of healthy cities, and builds a set of evaluation index systems for healthy cities that takes into account urban development trends and sustainable development, and selects a number of different scales and types of typical city, collecting statistical data and land use data, and using the entire-array-polygon (EAP)
By referring to the index system of domestic and foreign government agencies and to literature research, this paper constructs healthy city evaluation indicators that take into account the five aspects of environment, economy, population, service and space; Beijing, Shanghai, Nanchang, Guiyang, Datong are five cities for which, using the EAP
Summary
Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, Beijing 100094, China. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations propose to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”, and to achieve this goal requires that countries strengthen their capacity to manage health risks. Based on the above model, the World Health Organization proposed the concept of a healthy city in 1994, i.e., a city that continuously develops its natural and social environment, and continuously expands social resources, so that people can support each other in enjoying life and fully realizing their potential [2]. Building a healthy city in an all-round way is an important measure for the achievement of residents’ health and sustainable urban development [6]. In order to achieve this goal, the establishment of a sound health index system is required in order to evaluate urban health across multiple dimensions, improve the shortcomings caused by high-speed urbanization from multiple perspectives, and build a “people-oriented” healthy city in an all-round way
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