Healthy cities initiative in China: Progress, challenges, and the way forward.

ABSTRACT: China implemented the first phase of its National Healthy Cities pilot program from 2016-20. Along with related urban health governmental initiatives, the program has helped put health on the agenda of local governments while raising public awareness. Healthy City actions taken at the municipal scale also prepared cities to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. However, after intermittent trials spanning the past two decades, the Healthy Cities initiative in China has reached a crucial juncture. It risks becoming inconsequential given its overlap with other health promotion efforts, changing public health priorities in response to the pandemic, and the partial adoption of the Healthy Cities approach advanced by the World Health Organization (WHO). We recommend aligning the Healthy Cities initia

SUBMITTER: Bai Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9286727 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature