Take care of your city: Healthy cities, healthy communities

01.10.2021 15:00 - 16:30 | Room 7 | SESSION


Moderator

Murat Ar

Director, Turkish Healthy Cities Association

Handan Türkoğlu

Prof., Urban and Regional Planning, Istanbul Technical University

Gül Sayan Atanur

Prof., Landscape Architecture, Bursa Technical University

Miriam Weber

Senior Policy Advisor & Healthy City Coordinator, City of Utrecht

Alinur Aktaş

Mayor, Bursa Metropolitan Municipality & President, Turkish Healthy Cities Association

Marcus Grant

Editor-in-Chief, Cities & Health

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) approach, a “healthy city” is a process, not a result. The health of a city is more about the effort to improve its qualities in this area with the awareness of "healthy city" rather than reaching the best level of health. In this session; the necessity of examining the health dimension of all studies to be conducted in a city; The importance of the priority of health in the policies of local governments and decision makers and the formation of the Healthy Cities Network will be evaluated with theoretical and practical aspects.