Can healthy cities be made really healthy?
Cole, Helen (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Shokry, Galia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Connolly, James J. T. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Pérez-del-Pulgar, Carmen (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Alonso, Jordi (Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques)
Anguelovski, Isabelle (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)

Date:	2017
Abstract:	Strategies such as the Healthy Cities project aim to place health at the centre of urban interventions. 1 Such programmes seek to create cities with adequate housing and public transportation, quality health care, and safe places to exercise and play. However, these common transversal approaches also carry a risk of perverse effects, especially when the effect of market-oriented regulatory processes and uneven dynamics of policy formation are not considered. As a result, the Healthy Cities project and similar approaches, such as the WHO's promoted Health in All Policies, might in some cases bolster rather than reduce established trends toward urban social and health inequities.
Grants:	European Commission 678034
Note:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu MdM-2015-0552
Note:	Digital object identifier for the 'European Research Council' (http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000781) - Digital object identifier for 'Horizon 2020' (http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100007601).
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Green gentrification ; Health inequalities ; Environmental health ; Health promotion ; GREENLULUS
Published in:	The Lancet public health, Vol. 2, No. 9 (Sep. 2017) , e394-e395, ISSN 2468-2667

DOI: 10.1016/S2468-2667(17)30166-4

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