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Sustainable Development Goals in Healthy Cities

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 9377

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Evelyne de Leeuw

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Centre for Health Equity Training Research and Evaluation, CHETRE (UNSW, SWSLHD; Ingham Institute) and Healthy Urban Environments Collaboratory MBG SPHERE, Liverpool, Australia
Interests: public health; health promotion; Healthy Cities; urban planning; health political science; methodology
Dr. Monika Kosinska

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World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, København, Denmark
Interests: governance for health; health equity; commercial determinants of health; public health; health promotion; healthy cities
Dr. Gerry Eijkemans

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Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA
Interests: public health; health promotion; healthy cities; social determinants of health
Prof. Keiko Nakamura

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WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research; Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8510, Japan
Interests: urban environment and health; healthy urban planning; implementation science; e-health

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The refinement and pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are picking up speed. From a slightly esoteric effort that may have appeared only of interest to a select group of academics and high-level bureaucrats, we are now seeing a significant commitment to the SDGs, not only by all levels of government around the world (and specifically local governments) but also by community groups, grassroots civil society, and innovative industry. The global Healthy Cities movement has been identified on a number of occasions as politically and practically pivotal in achieving the SDGs: in the Shanghai and Copenhagen Consensus Declarations, hundreds of mayors from around the world pledged their support for and investment in sustainability and health. With this Special Issue, we offer a platform for the identification, description, analysis and critical evaluation of SDGs and health efforts at the local level around the world. We particularly invite colleagues in Healthy Cities and associated research institutions to share their pursuits with us.

Prof. Evelyne de Leeuw
Dr. Monika Kosinska
Dr. Gerry Eijkemans
Prof. Keiko Nakamura
Guest Editors

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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Urban planning
  • Healthy cities
  • Sustainability
  • Policy
  • Determinants of health
  • Ecology
  • Physical activity
  • Transport
  • Infrastructure
  • Community
  • Culture
  • Implementation
  • Equity
  • Healthy municipalities

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Walkable Urban Environments: An Ergonomic Approach of Evaluation
by Letizia Appolloni, Alberto Giretti, Maria Vittoria Corazza and Daniela D’Alessandro
Sustainability 2020, 12(20), 8347; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208347 - 10 Oct 2020
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Background. The salutogenicity of urban environments is significantly affected by their ergonomics, i.e., by the quality of the interactions between citizens and the elements of the built environment. Measuring and modelling urban ergonomics is thus a key issue to provide urban policy [...] Read more.
Background. The salutogenicity of urban environments is significantly affected by their ergonomics, i.e., by the quality of the interactions between citizens and the elements of the built environment. Measuring and modelling urban ergonomics is thus a key issue to provide urban policy makers with planning solutions to increase the well-being, usability and safety of the urban environment. However, this is a difficult task due to the complexity of the interrelations between the urban environment and human activities. The paper contributes to the definition of a generalized model of urban ergonomics and salutogenicity, focusing on walkability, by discussing the relevant parameters from the large and variegated sets proposed in the literature, by discussing the emerging model structure from a data mining process, by considering the background of the relevant functional dependency already established in the literature, and by providing evidence of the solutions’ effectiveness. The methodology is developed for a case study in central Italy, with a focus on the mobility issue, which is a catalyst to generate more salutogenic and sustainable behaviors. Full article
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Analysis of the Impact of China’s Hierarchical Medical System and Online Appointment Diagnosis System on the Sustainable Development of Public Health: A Case Study of Shanghai
by Xiaojuan Shen, Weixin Yang and Shaorong Sun
Sustainability 2019, 11(23), 6564; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11236564 - 21 Nov 2019
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In the study of the sustainable development of public health in China, academic circles have little to do with the unique hierarchical medical system and online appointment diagnosis system in China’s medical system. Therefore, based on the medical situation in Shanghai, China, in [...] Read more.
In the study of the sustainable development of public health in China, academic circles have little to do with the unique hierarchical medical system and online appointment diagnosis system in China’s medical system. Therefore, based on the medical situation in Shanghai, China, in addition to the traditional dimension of medical expenses, this paper fully considers the impact of the current hierarchical medical policy, constructs a selection model for medical treatment behavior under the hierarchical medical system and online appointment diagnosis system, and carries out simulation analysis through the cellular automata grid dynamic model. This paper finds that the time-cost-oriented medical treatment behavior of Chinese patients will have different distribution under the current hierarchical medical system and online appointment diagnosis system. (1) When the medical treatment system neither allows online appointment nor referral, a large number of patients congregated in high-grade hospitals, with the most unreasonable distribution. (2) With the implementation of the system of allowing referral and online appointment, patients are gradually diverted to lower-grade hospitals or off-peak hours, and the distribution is relatively improved. (3) If the medical treatment system allows both referral and online appointment, the distribution of patients is the most reasonable. Therefore, China’s current hierarchical medical system and online appointment diagnosis system will, to a considerable extent, become a policy tool that affects patients’ choice of hospitals and an effective means to achieve the rational allocation of existing medical resources, which will play an important role in the sustainable development of public health in China. Full article
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