Health as the Pulse of the New Urban Agenda
2016
This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) explores the role of health in urban planning, investments, and policy decisions. In support of the New Urban Agenda, the report stresses the importance of considering the health of a city’s residents when making policies and decisions. Offering guidance and suggestions for using development to support health, and health to support development, the report suggests both applying a “health lens” to urban planning, governance, and finance, and involving the health sector in advancing healthy, sustainable urban planning. It addresses which policies promote public health and which ones create risk, how health can be accounted for in urban planning, and the unique role the health sector plays in the New Urban Agenda.
The New Urban Agenda for global standards in sustainable urban development was adopted by the U.N. Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito, Ecuador in October 2016, with representation from 167 countries.
Health as the Pulse of the New Urban Agenda
Source:
Health as the Pulse of the New Urban Agenda: United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, Quito 2016. World Health Organization 2016. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/250367.