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Title: | Developing a health‐spatial indicator system for a Healthy City in small and midsized cities | Authors: | Luo, J Chan, EHW Du, J Feng, L Jiang, P Xu, Y |
Issue Date: | Mar-2022 | Source: | International journal of environmental research and public health, Mar. 2022, v. 19, no. 6, 3294 | Abstract: | A recent examination of the significant role of public health has prompted calls to re‐in-vestigate how the urban environment affects public health. A vital part of the solution includes Healthy City initiatives that have been the subject of extensive policies, implications, and practices globally. However, the existing literature mainly focuses on big cities and metropolitan areas, while investigations into small and midsized cities (SMCs) are lacking, and thus reflect the underlying issues of health inequity. This study develops an indicator system for evaluating Healthy City initiatives in SMCs, linking urban design and public health, supported by the analyzed opinions from experts collected using both questionnaires and interviews. The indicator system includes six pri-mary dimensions and 37 variables: urban form and transportation (UFT); health‐friendly service (HFS); environmental quality and governance (EQG); community and facility (CF); green and open space (GOS); and ecological construction and biodiversity (ECB). A fuzzy synthetic evaluation technique was used to assess the relative importance of factors, emphasizing the importance of UFT, HFS, and EQG, with importance indexes of 0.175, 0.174, and 0.174, respectively. This indicator system is helpful for SMCs seeking to construct a Healthy City in the future, and is based on urban design and governance inputs and for enhancing the Healthy City knowledge base of cities of varied scales. | Keywords: | Built environment Healthy City Indicator system Small and midsized city Urban design |
Publisher: | Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) | Journal: | International journal of environmental research and public health | ISSN: | 1661-7827 | EISSN: | 1660-4601 | DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph19063294 | Rights: | © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The following publication Luo, J., Chan, E. H., Du, J., Feng, L., Jiang, P., & Xu, Y. (2022). Developing a Health-Spatial Indicator System for a Healthy City in Small and Midsized Cities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(6), 3294 is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063294. |
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