TY - JOUR

T1 - Municipal health promotion as part of urban health

T2 - A policy framework for action

AU - Quilling, Eike

AU - Babitsch, Birgit

AU - Dadaczynski, Kevin

AU - Kruse, Stefanie

AU - Kuchler, Maja

AU - Köckler, Heike

AU - Leimann, Janna

AU - Walter, Ulla

AU - Plantz, Christina

N1 - This research was funded by The Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA). The BZgA is a specialist authority within the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Health. The APC was funded by the University of Applied Science, Bochum (Hochschule für Gesundheit, Bochum). The project JAHEE is funded by the European Union (EU) (No. AMD-801600-18). The authors of this article express their very great appreciation and thanks to the following organizations for their valuable and constructive contribution to the policy framework for action, especially to all WP6 Group Members: ISS (Italy), ASLTO3 (Italy), MoH CY (Cyprus), NIPH (Czech Republic), DYPEDE (Greece), minVWS (Netherlands), City of Utrecht (Netherlands), SUM (Poland), MS (Portugal), SNSPMPDSB (Romania), INSMC (Romania), IPHS (Serbia), IPHN (Serbia), NIJZ (Slovenia), FISABIO (Spain), DPTSALUD. GV (Spain), FoHM (Sweden), Health Promotion Documentation Centre (Italy), Pharos (Netherlands), RIVM (Netherlands), Ministry of Health, Consumer Affairs and Social Welfare (Spain).

PY - 2020/8/18

Y1 - 2020/8/18

N2 - The link between health, socio-economic status and the living environment is increasingly moving into the focus of public health research and policy. The aim of the European Union's Project "Joint Action Health Equity Europe (JAHEE)" is to enable countries to identify and implement needs-based measures to promote health equity. In one of JAHEE's work packages, focusing on healthy living environments as a strategy to tackle health inequities, a Policy Framework for Action (PFA) has been developed. This article gives an insight into the core contents of the PFA, which are valid beyond the project boundaries for all actors that work at the intersection of community health promotion. The PFA was developed as a consensus document in a participatory process between the members of the work package and an interdisciplinary German team of public health experts. Results from project meetings of the partner countries as well as research findings and recommendations from field experts were incorporated. Reducing health inequalities in public health is a cross-sectional issue that needs to be addressed across all policy areas. The municipality setting is of particular importance in this context, as it offers many starting points and can coordinate between all relevant actors with an overarching strategy.

AB - The link between health, socio-economic status and the living environment is increasingly moving into the focus of public health research and policy. The aim of the European Union's Project "Joint Action Health Equity Europe (JAHEE)" is to enable countries to identify and implement needs-based measures to promote health equity. In one of JAHEE's work packages, focusing on healthy living environments as a strategy to tackle health inequities, a Policy Framework for Action (PFA) has been developed. This article gives an insight into the core contents of the PFA, which are valid beyond the project boundaries for all actors that work at the intersection of community health promotion. The PFA was developed as a consensus document in a participatory process between the members of the work package and an interdisciplinary German team of public health experts. Results from project meetings of the partner countries as well as research findings and recommendations from field experts were incorporated. Reducing health inequalities in public health is a cross-sectional issue that needs to be addressed across all policy areas. The municipality setting is of particular importance in this context, as it offers many starting points and can coordinate between all relevant actors with an overarching strategy.

KW - Health equity

KW - Health in all policies

KW - Health promotion

KW - Municipality

KW - Policy framework

KW - Public health action cycle

KW - Urban health

KW - Health sciences

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85089801707&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.3390/su12166685

DO - 10.3390/su12166685

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85089801707

VL - 12

JO - Sustainability

JF - Sustainability

SN - 2071-1050

IS - 16

M1 - 6685

ER -