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      From Urban Projects to Healthy City Policies

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          A definition of projectitis (also known as ‘projectism’) is proposed to describe a key barrier to full deployment of a Healthy City vision and values. This chapter argues that to put health high on local social and political agendas necessarily means to transcend project-based work, and move into lasting programme and policy development. The conditions for such approaches are favourable in Healthy Cities, as a number of glocal (global and local) developments invest and sustain longer term perspectives. These conditions include emphases on policy diffusion, social justice, a better understanding of complex systems, and global commitments to the development and implementation of Health in All Policies. These efforts, in turn, are grounded in renewed and tangible support from Universal Health Coverage and Primary Health Care, asset-based community health development, and better insights into what drives (health) equity and economic development. In describing these elements of policy development for value-based Healthy Cities the chapter also gives a firm argument for a broad range of stakeholders to engage successfully in longer term policy change.

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          The Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion

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            Cities are the predominant mode of living, and the growth in cities is related to the expansion of areas that have concentrated disadvantage. The foreseeable trend is for rising inequities across a wide range of social and health dimensions. Although qualitatively different, this trend exists in both the developed and developing worlds. Improving the health of people in slums will require new analytic frameworks. The social-determinants approach emphasizes the role of factors that operate at multiple levels, including global, national, municipal, and neighborhood levels, in shaping health. This approach suggests that improving living conditions in such arenas as housing, employment, education, equality, quality of living environment, social support, and health services is central to improving the health of urban populations. While social determinant and multilevel perspectives are not uniquely urban, they are transformed when viewed through the characteristics of cities such as size, density, diversity, and complexity. Ameliorating the immediate living conditions in the cities in which people live offers the greatest promise for reducing morbidity, mortality, and disparities in health and for improving quality of life and well being.
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                +6161(2) 8738 9311 , e.deleeuw@unsw.edu.au
                +4141+ 41 22 379 08 22 , jean.simos@unige.ch
                e.deleeuw@unsw.edu.au
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                978-1-4939-6694-3
                10.1007/978-1-4939-6694-3
                Healthy Cities
                Healthy Cities
                The Theory, Policy, and Practice of Value-Based Urban Planning
                978-1-4939-6692-9
                978-1-4939-6694-3
                08 September 2016
                : 407-437
                Affiliations
                [1 ]ISNI 0000 0004 4902 0432, GRID grid.1005.4, Centre for Health Equity Training, Research & Evaluation (CHETRE), , University of New South Wales, South Western Sydney Local Health District, Ingham Institute, ; Liverpool, New South Wales Australia
                [2 ]ISNI 0000 0001 2322 4988, GRID grid.8591.5, Institute of Global Health, , University of Geneva, Campus Biotech, ; Geneva, Switzerland
                GRID grid.1005.4, ISNI 0000 0004 4902 0432, Centre for Health Equity Training, Research & Evaluation (CHETRE), , University of New South Wales, South Western Sydney Local Health District, Ingham Institute, ; Locked Bag 7103, Liverpool, BC NSW 1871 Australia
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