Healthy Cities

Part I: Foundations and Historical Backdrop.- Introduction: Aims and Objectives of this Book.- Paleo-Epidemiology, Nomadism and Sedentism: Health and the City.- Urbanisation and Public Health.- Health in Canada in the 1970s and 1980s: Hotbed of Innovation.- Healthy Cities Emerge: Toronto - Ottawa - Copenhagen.- Healthy Cities Grow: Development of International, National, Regional, Linguistic Networks.- Eleven Qualities a City Should Strive to Provide (1986).- Part II: Conceptual Framework and Analysis: Healthy Cities Working from a Joint Value Base.- From Movement to Maturity?- Africa - Anglophone.- Africa - Francophone.- Africa - Maghreb.- Arabic.- Central and South America.- North America.- Europe.- South-East Asia.- Asia-Pacific.- Oceania.- Wrap-Up: Values and Governance for Urban Health.- Part III: The Analysis Continues: Thematic Priorities.- The Role of the Community and Policy Coalitions.- Greening the City.- Environments for Health.- From Urban Projects to Healthy City Policies.- Futuring for Healthy Mega-Cities.- Methodological Reflections on Generating Evidence for Healthy Cities.- Health and Social Impact Assessment for Urban Health.- Conclusion: A Critical Appraisal at the Movement's 25th Birthday.

Evelyne de Leeuw, PhD, has worked and studied in universities in The Netherlands, the USA, El Salvador, Canada, Denmark and Australia. She holds degrees from Maastricht University and the University of California at Berkeley. Her PhD (1989) investigated the feasibility of developing and implementing Healthy Public Policy at the national level, and analysing that this is virtually impossible she found that whole-of-government health (policy) approaches would be more easily achieved at the local level - hence a commitment to Healthy Cities since the mid-1980s. Her quest for the development and application of health political science was side-lined routinely - by being elected Secretary-General of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region ASPHER (1992-1998), Editor-in-Chief of Health Promotion International (since 2010), foundation director of health promotion research and public health teaching institutions (Syddansk Universitet, 2000-2005, Deakin University 2008-2013), and recreational writing outings. Currently she enjoys being professor and director of the Centre for Health Equity Training Research and Evaluation (CHETRE), based at the University of New South Wales, SouthWestern Sydney Local Health District, and the Ingham Institute.