Standards for healthy cities

Building a healthy city is a global action strategy advocated in the 1980s in the face of the challenges brought by urbanization to human health. The World Health Organization has designated1April 2, 1996 as the theme of World Health Day "City and Health", and according to the experience and achievements of developing healthy cities in various countries around the world, it has also issued "10 Standard for Healthy Cities" as the direction and measurement index for building healthy cities.

Specific standards

1) provides a clean and safe environment for the public.

2) Provide citizens with reliable and lasting food, drinking water and energy supply, and have an effective garbage removal system.

3) Ensure citizens' basic needs in nutrition, drinking water, housing, income, safety and work through various dynamic and creative economic means.

4) Have a strong citizen group that helps each other, in which different organizations can coordinate their work to improve urban sanitation.

5) To enable citizens to participate in the formulation of various policies concerning their daily lives, especially their health and welfare.

6) Provide various places for entertainment and leisure activities to facilitate communication and contact between citizens.

7) Protect the cultural heritage and respect the various cultural and life characteristics of all residents, regardless of their ethnic or religious beliefs.

8) Take health protection as an integral part of public decision-making, and give citizens the right to choose healthy behaviors.

9) Constantly improve the quality of health services, so that more citizens can enjoy health services.

10) can make people live healthier, live longer and suffer less diseases.

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A healthy city also includes people who live in it. Health is not only the health of the external environment, but also the mental health of people.