Alliance for Healthy Cities
The Alliance for Healthy Cities (AFHC) is a cooperative international alliance aimed at protecting and enhancing the health and health care of city dwellers. It is composed of groups of cities, urban districts and other organizations from countries around the world in exchanging information to achieve the goal through a health promotion approach called Healthy Cities. The chair city for the alliance is Ichikawa, Japan.[1]
The alliance and its members work in favour of the healthy city, defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "one that is continually creating and improving those physical and social environments and expanding those community resources which enable people to mutually support each other in performing all the functions of life and in developing to their maximum potential".[2]
History
The first international declaration that promoted the concepts underlying healthy cities, the
Various discussions have taken place since then.
Economic development has brought comfort and convenience to many people in the industrialized world, but in its wake are pollution, new health problems, blighted urban landscapes and social isolation. Growing numbers of the dispossessed are also being left on the sidelines as the disparity between rich and poor grows. In an effort to remedy these ills, people from disparate backgrounds in thousands of communities are joining together with government agencies under the Healthy Cities/Healthy Communities banner to improve the quality of life in their towns and cities.
At the First International Conference on Health Promotion in 1986, the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion was adopted that presented actions to achieve healthy life for all people by the year 2000 and beyond.[5]
Following a second international conference on
Timeline
- 17 October 2003: First organizational meeting held in NGOs, and academic institutions engaged in the Healthy Cities program worldwide.[citation needed]
- 12–14 October 2004: The Alliance held its inaugural General Assembly and Conference in Kuching, with city mayors, governors, city officers, public health and urban planning professionals, NGOs, academic institutions, and national and international leaders to celebrate the inauguration of the Alliance for Healthy Cities.[citation needed]
- 28–30 October 2006: The Second General Assembly and Conference in Suzhou, with the theme Healthy Cities in the Globalizing World.[citation needed]
- 23–26 October 2008: The third global conference of the Alliance for Healthy Cities was held in Ichikawa with the theme of "Health Security in the City: Healthy Cities activities building a better future".[citation needed]
- 21–22 July 2009: AFHC International Forum was in Hue.[citation needed]
- October 2009: The fourth global conference was held in Gangnam-gu, South Korea[citation needed]
List of members
Australia
CambodiaPeople's Republic of China
Japan
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South Korea
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MalaysiaMongolia
NetherlandsPhilippines
Vietnam
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See also
- Public health
- UNICEF
- Primary health care
- Alma Ata Declaration
- Health promotion
References
- ^ "Definition, ABOUT THE ALLIANCE". Alliance for Healthy Cities.
- ^ World Health Organization. Health Promotion Glossary. Geneva, 1998.
- WHO. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2012-02-05.
- ^ "Healthy cities, healthy children, Leonard Duhl and Trevor Hancock". UNICEF.
- WHO. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2009-07-27.
- ^ "Jakarta Declaration on Leading Health, Promotion into the 21st Century" (PDF). Alliance for Healthy Cities.
External links
- The Alliance for Healthy Cities official Home page
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