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ArticleJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2024

How to Achieve a Healthy City: a Scoping Review with Ten City Examples.

Abbas Ziafati Bafarasat, Ayyoob Sharifi

Abstract readScoping Review
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Article in Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Abbas Ziafati BafarasatSchool of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. aziafati-bafarasat@brookes.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-4001-1081
Ayyoob SharifiThe IDEC Institute & Network for Education and Research On Peace and Sustainability (NERPS), Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-8983-8613

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This scoping review of the literature explores the following question: what systematic measures are needed to achieve a healthy city? The World Health Organization (WHO) suggests 11 characteristics of a healthy city. Measures contributing to these characteristics are extracted and classified into 29 themes. Implementation of some of these measures is illustrated by examples from Freiburg, Greater Vancouver, Singapore, Seattle, New York City, London, Nantes, Exeter, Copenhagen, and Washington, DC. The identified measures and examples indicate that a healthy city is a system of healthy sectors. A discussion section suggests healthy directions for nine sectors in a healthy city. These sectors include transportation, housing, schools, city planning, local government, environmental management, retail, heritage, and healthcare. Future work is advised to put more focus on characteristic 5 (i.e., the meeting of basic needs for all the city's people) and characteristic 10 (i.e., public health and sick care services accessible to all) of a healthy city.

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Delivery of Health CarePublic HealthCitiesCity PlanningHealth StatusHumansNew York CityHealthy citiesPublic healthSustainable developmentUrban healthUrban planningWorld Health Organization (WHO)

Identifiers

PMID38110772
PMCPMC10897125

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