Healthy cities

20 INTERESTED IN HEALTHY CITIES? ea Learn all about Healthy Cities. Here are some of the major documents obtainable from WHO: Twenty steps for developing a Healthy Cities project, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Second Edition 1995, (English and French versions available). Building a Healthy City: A Practitioners' Guide. A step-by-step Approach to Implementing Healthy Cities Projects in Low-Income Countries, WHO, Geneva, 1995. WHO Healthy Cities: A Programme Framework, A review of the Operation and Future Development of the WHO Healthy Cities Programme. WHO, Geneva 1995. World Health Organization Healthy Cities Project: A Project Becomes a Movement. Review of Progress 1987 to 1990, published for the WHO Healthy Cities Project Office by FADL Publishers, Copenhagen, 1990. Join a Healthy City network and receive the net- work newsletter, by contacting your Healthy City Coordinator at your nearest WHO Regional Office: WHO Regional Office for Africa P.O. Box No 6, Brazzaville, Congo. Fax: (242) 83 94 00 or 01. WHO Regional Office for the Americas/Pan American Sanitary Bureau 525 23rd Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA. Fax: (1) 202 223 5971. WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Medite"anean P.O. Box 1517, Alexandria 21511, Egypt. Fax: (203) 483 8916. WHO Regional Office for Europe 8 Scherfigsvej, DK-2100 Copenhagen 0. Fax: (45) 39 17 18 18. WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia World Health House, lndraprastha Estate, Mahatma Gandhi Road, New Delhi 110002, India. Fax: (91) 11 331 8607/332 7972. WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific P.O. Box 2932, Manila 1099, Philippines. Fax: (632) 521 1036/526 0279. World Health • 49th Year, No. 1, January-February 1996 World Health • 49th Year, No.1, January-February 1996 thy • • CitieS TWENTY STEPS TO DEVELOP A HEALTHY CITY PROJECT Taking Action 1. Increase health awareness 2. Advocate strategic planning 3. Mobilize intersectoral action 4. Encourage community participation 5. Promote innovation 6. Secure healthy public policy GeHing Organized 7. Appoint a committee 8. Link health status to living conditions 9. Define project work 10. Set up an office 11. Plan strategy and develop a city health plan 12. Build capacity 13. Establish accountability GeHing Started 14. Build a support group 15. Understand ideas and health - environment links 16. Know the city 17. Identify potential project partners 18. Decide on the organization 19. Prepare a proposal 20. Get approval 21