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

Bai，Yuqi1; Zhang，Yutong1; Zotova，Olena2; Pineo，Helen3; Siri，José4; Liang，Lu5; Luo，Xiangyu1; Kwan，Mei Po6; Ji，John7; Jiang，Xiaopeng8; Chu，Cordia9; Cong，Na1; Lin，Vivian10; Summerskill，William11; Luo，Yong1; Yu，Hongjun12; Wu，Tinghai13; Yang，Changhong14; Li，Jing15; Xiao，Yixiong16; Zhou，Jingbo16; Dou，Dejing16; Xiong，Hui17; Zhang，Lee Ligang18; Wang，Lan19; Tao，Shu20; Fu，Bojie21; Zhang，Yong22; Xu，Bing1; Yang，Jun1; Gong，Peng23

2022-10-01

10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100539

LANCET REGIONAL HEALTH-WESTERN PACIFIC   Impact Factor & Quartile

2666-6065

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 pro-motion 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 initiative in China with strategic national and global level agendas such as Healthy China 2030 and the Sus-tainable Development Goals (SDGs) by providing an integrative governance framework to facilitate a coherent intersectoral program to systemically improve population health. Achieving this alignment will require leveraging the full spectrum of best practices in Healthy Cities actions and expanding assessment efforts.Funding Tsinghua-Toyota Joint Research Fund "Healthy city systems for smart cities" program.Copyright (c) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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Hong Kong Research Grants Council["14605920","14611621","C4023-20GF"] ; National Nature Science Foundation of China["52078349","41871359"]

Health Care Sciences & Services ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Health Care Sciences & Services ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

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1.Department of Earth System Science,Institute for Global Change Studies,Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modelling,Tsinghua University,Beijing,China
2.Faculty of Health and Life Sciences,Universitat Pompeu Fabra,Barcelona,Spain
3.Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering,University College London,London,WC1H 0NN,United Kingdom
4.Independent Consultant,Urban Health,Philadelphia,19103,United States
5.Department of Geography and the Environment,University of North Texas,Denton,1155 Union Circle,76203,United States
6.Department of Geography and Resource Management and Institute of Space and Earth Information Science,The Chinese University of Hong Kong,Shatin,Hong Kong,China
7.Vanke School of Public Health,Tsinghua University,Beijing,China
8.Office of the WHO Representative in People's Republic of China,WHO,Beijing,China
9.Centre for Environment and Population Health,School of Medicine and Dentistry,Griffith University,Nathan,4111,Australia
10.LKS Faculty of Medicine,University of Hong Kong,Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,China
11.Consulting Editor,The Lancet,London,125 London Wall,EC2Y 5AS,United Kingdom
12.Department of Physical Education,Tsinghua University,Beijing,China
13.School of Architecture,Tsinghua University,Beijing,China
14.Division for Business Management and Quality Control of Sichuan Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention,Chengdu,610041,China
15.Fuwai Hospital,Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences,Shenzhen; National Clinical Research Centre for Cardiovascular Diseases,Fuwai Hospital,Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College,National Centre for Cardiovascular Diseases,Beijing,China
16.Business Intelligence Lab,Baidu Research,Beijing,China
17.Artificial Intelligence Thrust,The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou),Guangzhou,China and The Department of Computer Science and Engineering,The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,Hong Kong SAR,China
18.iKang Healthcare Group,Beijing,China
19.College of Architecture and Urban Planning,Tongji University,Shanghai,China
20.School of Environmental Science and Engineering,Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen,China
21.State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology,Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,China
22.Cancer Hospital Chinese Academy of Medical Science,Beijing,China
23.Department of Earth Sciences and Geography,University of Hong Kong,Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,China

Bai，Yuqi,Zhang，Yutong,Zotova，Olena,et al. Healthy cities initiative in China: Progress, challenges, and the way forward[J]. LANCET REGIONAL HEALTH-WESTERN PACIFIC,2022,27.

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Bai，Yuqi,et al."Healthy cities initiative in China: Progress, challenges, and the way forward".LANCET REGIONAL HEALTH-WESTERN PACIFIC 27(2022).