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Housing and the European World
Health Organisation Healthy City
Programme
By Dave Leonard
WHO Co-ordinator Sunderland
Aims and Objectives
The aims of the presentation are to provide an overview of:
• Phase IV WHO European Healthy City Network
• Healthy Cities and Housing
• Options for Future and 3 KEY CHALLENGES
Background
• Sunderland is one of 75 cities throughout Europe
participating in the WHO Network.
• It was agreed at the meeting of the Public Health Forum on
November 2004 that Sunderland should make an application
to become a member of the WHO Healthy Cities network.
• Healthy Cities is an ambitious and challenging health agenda
of achieving the 11 qualities of a healthy city. The overall
goals of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network:
– Address the determinants of health and the principles of health
for all;
– Integrate and promote European and global public health
priorities;
– Put health on the social and political agendas of cities; and.
– Promote good governance and partnership-based planning for
health.
Sunderland Healthy City
• The Healthy City initiative works the principles of the WHO
Healthy Cities network but also the aims of the Sunderland
Strategy.
Local Strategic
Partnership
• Structure
Public Health Forum
MACOG
Healthy City Group
Inequalities MARG
MARG
MARG
MARG
Primary Prevention
Needs
Health determinants
- LA input
Vulnerable
Groups
Community
Perspective
MARG
Primary Prevention
Programmes/lifestyle
WHO Healthy Cities Set up
The WHO Healthy Cities Network works around five year Phases.
We are currently in Phase IV. The phase IV is based upon core
themes;
• Healthy Ageing
• Healthy Urban Planning
• Health Impact Assessment
• Physical Activity/Active Living
WHO reporting structures include;
• Annual Business Meeting
• Sub-network Meetings
• UK Healthy City Co-ordinators Meetings
• Local Co-ordination
Core Objective: Healthy Ageing
• Healthy or active ageing is the process of optimising
opportunities for physical, social and mental wellbeing
throughout the life course in order to extend healthy life
expectancy, productivity and quality of life in older age.
• Population ageing is one of humanities greatest
achievements and challenges. Due to economic
success and unprecedented public health advances the
proportion of people aged sixty and over is growing
faster than any other population age group.
( WHO 2005)
Core objective:Healthy Urban Planning
• Means Planning for people. It promotes the idea that
a city is much more than buildings, streets and open
spaces but a living organism.
• Healthy Urban Planning focuses on the positive
impact that urban planning can have on human
health. Healthy Urban planning aims to improve both
the quality of life of an individual and communities in
cities. It can help create a healthy economy, a healthy
environment and a healthy society.
(WHO 2005)
Core objective: Health Impact Assessment
• HIA aims to influence decision making via a series of
evidence based recommendations which aims to
achieve changes in policies and proposals to better
health and reduction of health inequalities. The
recommendations of a HIA can influence suggestions
for enhancing the positive aspects of proposals as
well as recommendations to mitigate any potentially
negative aspects.
(WHO 2005)
Complementary Objective: Physical Activity
• Physical activity/active living is a complementary focus to
the three core themes for the Phase IV (2003-2008) Healthy
Cities Network. All cities are encouraged to be actively
involved in the promotion of physical activity.
• Physical activity benefits the physical, social and mental
health of people of all ages. Beyond the direct medical
benefits, increasing physical activity through an integrated
programme can increase social interaction throughout life,
provide recreation, and reduce violence, urban traffic
congestion and pollution.
(WHO 2005)
What we have achieved
• Used the work of WHO to demonstrate joined up
working through the Comprehensive
Performance Assessment process
• Created a Healthy Ageing Profile
• Developed a “Demystifying the Myths of Ageing”
Booklet.
• Organised a Healthy City Conference in 2006
• Organised a regional conference on Healthy
Ageing/Age Friendly Cities in 2007
• Used WHO principles in the delivery of the Older
Persons Partnership Action Group actions
What we have achieved
• Worked with Planners to embed health
improvement into the Local Development Plan
and other policy documents
• Used WHO principles in the delivery of the
Attractive and Accessible Thematic Partnership
Group actions
• Raised the profile of impact assessment within
the partnership
• Developed capacity for implementing HIA
• Introduced HIA as part of the NRF process
• Integrated HIA as part of Port redevelopments
What we have achieved
• Worked with Partners to produce the City’s
Walking Action Plan
• Supported the Council’s approach to the
development of Wellness in the City
Task 1
What positive and negative impacts can these factors
have on health?
• Housing
• Streets
• Play space
• Green space
•Communities
•Access/Transport
SUNDERLAND
WHO
• Phase IV finishes (2008)
• New Phase V (2008 – 2013)
- New opportunities to introduce and experiment with new
concepts and ideas
- Possible themes:
* Lifestyle
* Migrant Health
* Social Marketing/Creative Cities
* Healthy Urban Planning
* Equity
* Climate Change
* Communities
Issues - Planning
• Design – Homes
• Design – Estates
• Health Impact Assessments
• Creative Cities
Issues - Housing
• Energy Expenditure
• Ageing Population
• Housing Demand
• Communities
Our Health Urban Planning Aims
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Safe and convenient public places
Accessible services
Adequate recreational opportunities
High quality housing
Good access to work
High environmental quality
Local availably of affordable health food
Task 2
a) What would provide the biggest health outcomes in
strategically addressing Sunderland’s housing?
b) What are the 3 Key Challenges?
Future?
Thank you