https://hdl.handle.net/10680/837 2022-07-08T20:24:28Z https://hdl.handle.net/10680/875 Healthier cities and towns : some "best practices" for Canadian municipalities Mathur, Barbara The Healthy Cities project is a World Health Organization (WHO) initiative through which municipal governments and citizens can collaborate to devise and implement strategies for improving quality of life. In Canada, a project known as the "Canadian Healthy Communities Project" has similar objectives; it has been used to strengthen the economic and social wellbeing of many municipalities in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia. Cities and towns of other jurisdictions have had variable success. This work is intended as a resource for non-Quebec Canadian municipal governments that have not established Healthy Cities projects as such, but which may want to develop initiatives based on principles consistent with WHO's Healthy Cities. It is a "companion" to L'Obsession du citoyen, vade mecum pour villes et villages ou if fait bon vivre, written by Roger Lachance and Martine Morisset and published in 1995 by the Reseau quebecois de villes et villages en sante. That guide also is a resource, specifically for municipalities within Quebec which do not have Villes et villages en sante (Healthy Cities) projects, but which may want to develop initiatives based on the principles central to the movement. The Lachance and Morisset book is a rich source of ideas: The authors identify sound management philosophies and practices of municipal government; they describe some initiatives which relate directly to the healthy cities concept and others which relate indirectly, which save money or in other ways free the administration to realize "healthy city like" initiatives within their municipalities. Book: v, 42 p., digital file 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10680/874 Canadian healthy communities project : a conceptual model for Winnipeg Lane, Barbara J. While in Canada health care falls in provincial jurisdiction, health itself is everyone's responsibility, and, it may be argued, particularly that of municipal government. Health, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) is defined as • . . . a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely absence of disease or infirmity" (1946, p.1). Viewed as such, health becomes the business of municipal government, as the level of government whose policies and decisions in physical planning and in areas such as water, waste management, transportation and parks, have the most immediate impact on the daily lives of citizens. The Canadian Healthy Communities Project presents an opportunity for municipal governments and people of the community to work together to build and maintain physical and social environments which promote the well- being of all citizens. ix, 113 p. : ill., maps, digital file 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10680/838 视角对城市卫生Mathur, Brijesh; Lane, Barbara; Harvey, Dexter; Greensmith, Chris; Jackson, Suzanne Mathur, Brijesh The Canadian Healthy Communities Project {CHCP) was launched in 1988 as a three-year project to promote municipal involvement in creating healthy communities. In 1991, CHCP will complete three years of its operation, and funding has been extended for a further three-year period. In a way, the papers included in this volume present the challenge, as well as the potential, for improving urban health in contemporary times. Book: iii, 61 pp.,digital file. 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z