ReviewJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2013
Urban planning for healthy cities. A review of the progress of the European Healthy Cities Programme.
Review in Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
39 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Exploring methods to assess environmental health inequalities in health impact assessments of local interventions: a systematic review within the JA PreventNCD project.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Surrounding Residential Greenness and Health: Associations With Abdominal Obesity and Dyslipidemia. A Meta-Analysis of Cross-Sectional Studies.Public health reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Multisectoral interventions and health system performance: a systematic review.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2024Pooled it
- Future challenges for intervention research in health and lifestyle research - A systematic meta-literature review.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2015Pooled it
- Accessibility to urban parks and resilience among adults in Spain: gender inequalities from the DESVELA study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Health improvement and inequality in local authority green infrastructure strategies in England: a policy review.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Global, regional and national burden of intracerebral hemorrhage attributable to dietary and metabolic risks from 1990 to 2021 and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis based on the Global Burden of Disease 2021 comparative risk assessment framework.European journal of medical research · 2025Article
- Impact of national health city campaign on public health in China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Barriers to integration of health and equity into urban design policies in Regina, Saskatchewan.Health promotion international · 2024Article
- Sentiment and semantic analysis: Urban quality inference using machine learning algorithms.iScience · 2024Article
- A Co-Created Assessment Framework to Measure Inclusive Health and Wellbeing in a Vulnerable Context in the South of Europe.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Healthy city evaluation based on factor analysis-Taking cities in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region as an example.PloS one · 2024Article
- The iceberg of dementia risk: empirical and conceptual arguments in favor of structural interventions for brain health.Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior · 2024Article
- A Scoping Review of Urban Planning Decision Support Tools and Processes That Account for the Health, Environment, and Economic Benefits of Trees and Greenspace.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Regulatory mechanisms to create healthier environments: planning appeals and hot food takeaways in England.Perspectives in public health · 2023Article
- Article
- Prevention of atherosclerosis from childhood.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2022Review
- Selected Research Issues of Urban Public Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Towards an effective collaboration between the South Western Sydney Local Health District and local councils: insights from a qualitative study.Health research policy and systems · 2022Article
- Parental perceptions of the food environment and their influence on food decisions among low-income families: a rapid review of qualitative evidence.BMC public health · 2022Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the progress made by European cities in relation to Healthy Urban Planning (HUP) during Phase IV of the World Health Organization's Healthy Cities programme (2003-2008). The introduction sets out the general principle of HUP, identifying three levels or phases of health and planning integration. This leads on to a more specific analysis of the processes and substance of HUP, which provide criteria for assessment of progress. The assessment itself relies on two sources of data provided by the municipalities: the Annual Review Templates (ARTs) 2008 and the response to the Phase IV General Evaluation Questionnaire. The findings indicate that the evidence from different sources and questions in different sections are encouragingly consistent. The number of cities achieving a good level of understanding and activity in HUP has risen very substantially over the period. In particular, those achieving effective strategic integration of health and planning have increased. A key challenge for the future will be to develop planning frameworks which advance public health concerns in a spatial policy context driven often by market forces. A health in all policies approach could be valuable.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.