Abstract
The Healthy Cities and Sustainable Development Goals are interlinked, and the Healthy Cities movement has received widespread response and support worldwide over the past 30 years. The European Healthy Cities Networks covers about 1,400 cities. China started the Healthy Cities Movement in 1994 and put forward the Healthy China Strategy in the report of 19th national congress of CPC. Based on the impact of COVID-19 and Henan floods on urban health, it is necessary to incorporate some unconventional indicators into the Healthy Cities evaluation indicator framework. In addition, structured data cannot fully describe certain indicators, so the collection of unstructured data is equally important.
Highlights
1.1 Healthy Cities and its definitionHealthy Cities is a concept advocated by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1984
As one of WHO’s main vehicles for carrying out the strategy of Health For All (HFA) [5], WHO launched the Healthy Cities Projects (HCPs) in 1986, which gradually becoming a strategic tool for city management [6], and subsequently established the National Healthy Cities Networks (NNs) in the WHO European region
The NNs developed a set of 53 Healthy Cities Indicators (HCIs), based on which the HCPs improved the original indicators and reduced them to 32, while improved the original definitions
Summary
Healthy Cities is a concept advocated by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1984. Since the 1980s, different institutions and scholars have tried to define Healthy Cities. In 1994, the WHO proposed a specific definition: A healthy city is one that continually creates and improves its physical and social environments and expands the community resources that enable people to mutually support each other in performing all the functions of life and developing to their maximum potential (https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/environment-and-health/urban-health/whoeuropean). Healthy Cities is a comprehensive concept that involves many aspects of urban construction and development, and requires the collaboration of departments and extensive social participation [2]. There are many scholars who try to give concepts of healthy cities from different disciplinary perspectives
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