What makes for sustainable Healthy Cities initiatives? - a review of the evidence from Noarlunga, Australia after 18 years
Health promot. int
; 21(4): 259-265, Dec. 2006.
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ABSTRACT
This paper examines the factors that have enabled the Healthy Cities Noarlunga (HCN) initiative to be sustainable over 18 years (1987-2005). Sustainability related to the ability of the initiative to continue to operate continuously in a manner that indicated its existence was accorded value by the community and local service providers. The analysis is based on a narrative review of 29 documents related to HCN, including a number of evaluations. Nine factors emerged as important to ensuring sustainability strong social health vision; inspirational leadership, a model that can adapt to local conditions; ability to juggle competing demands; strongly supported community involvement that represents genuine engagement; recognition by a broad range of players that Healthy Cities is a relatively neutral space in which to achieve goals; effective and sustainable links with a local university; an outward focus open to international links and outside perspectives; and, most crucial, the initiative makes the transition from a project to an approach and a way of working. These sustainability factors are likely to be relevant to a range of complex, community-based initiatives. (AU)
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Assunto principal:
Cidade Saudável
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Desenvolvimento Sustentável
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Promoção da Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Determinantes_sociais_saude
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Health promot. int
Ano de publicação:
2006
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Article