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Creating healthy and sustainable cities : What gets measured, gets done [Commentary]
Giles-Corti, Billie Moudon, Anne Vernez Lowe, Melanie Adlakha, Deepti Cerin, Ester Boeing, Geoff Higgs, Carl Arundel, Jonathan Liu, Shiqin Hinckson, Erica
Giles-Corti, Billie
Moudon, Anne Vernez
Lowe, Melanie
Adlakha, Deepti
Cerin, Ester
Boeing, Geoff
Higgs, Carl
Arundel, Jonathan
Liu, Shiqin
Hinckson, Erica
Author
Giles-Corti, Billie
Moudon, Anne Vernez
Lowe, Melanie
Adlakha, Deepti
Cerin, Ester
Boeing, Geoff
Higgs, Carl
Arundel, Jonathan
Liu, Shiqin
Hinckson, Erica
Salvo, Deborah
Adams, Marc A.
Badland, Hannah
Florindo, Alex A.
Gebel, Klaus
Hunter, Ruth F.
Mitáš, Josef
Oyeyemi, Adewale L.
Puig-Ribera, Anna
Queralt, Ana
Santos, Maria Paula
Schipperijn, Jasper
Stevenson, Mark
Van Dyck, Delfien
Vich, Guillem
Sallis, James F.
Moudon, Anne Vernez
Lowe, Melanie
Adlakha, Deepti
Cerin, Ester
Boeing, Geoff
Higgs, Carl
Arundel, Jonathan
Liu, Shiqin
Hinckson, Erica
Salvo, Deborah
Adams, Marc A.
Badland, Hannah
Florindo, Alex A.
Gebel, Klaus
Hunter, Ruth F.
Mitáš, Josef
Oyeyemi, Adewale L.
Puig-Ribera, Anna
Queralt, Ana
Santos, Maria Paula
Schipperijn, Jasper
Stevenson, Mark
Van Dyck, Delfien
Vich, Guillem
Sallis, James F.
Abstract
[Extract] Since the first Lancet Series on urban design, transport, and health (Series 1) was published in 2016, the urgency to make the transition to healthy and sustainable cities worldwide has intensified. That year, the UN's Sustainable Development Goals1 for promoting prosperity while protecting the planet and ensuring equity came into force. WHO also released its Shanghai Declaration on promoting health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. At WHO Global Conference on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in 2017, heads of states reiterated their commitment to reduce premature mortality from NCDs by a third by 2030. In 2018, WHO published the Global Action Plan for Physical Activity, which featured recommendations to create active environments. Cobenefits of integrated city planning policies for individual and planetary health are now recognised globally, and scientific evidence about rapidly changing earth systems and increasingly extreme weather has reinforced the urgency to transition to net-zero-emission cities.2
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Date
2022
Type
Other
Journal
The Lancet Global Health
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Volume
10
Issue
6
Page Range
e782-e785
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ACU Department
Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
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Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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