WE CAN’T SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS AT THE SAME LEVEL OF THINKING, WITH WHICH, WE CREATED THEM. .
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WE CAN’T SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS AT THE SAME LEVEL OF THINKING, WITH WHICH, WE CREATED THEM. . (Einstein)
What is A Healthy City ?
A healthy city is one that is
continually creating and improving those physical and social environments and
expanding those community resources which enable people to mutually support
each other in performing all the functions of life and developing to their maximum
potential.
Qualities of A Healthy City :
1. A clean, safe physical environment of high quality (including housing quality)
2. An ecosystem that is stable now and sustainable in the long term.
3. A strong, mutually supportive and non-exploitive community.
4. A high degree of participation and control by the public over the decisions affecting their lives, health and well being.
5. The meeting of basic needs (for food, water, shelter, income, safety and work) for all the city's people.
6. Access to a wide variety of experience and resources with the chance for a wide variety of contact , interactions and communication.
7. A diverse, vital and innovative city economy.
8. The encouragement connectedness with the past, with the cultural and biological heritage of city dwellers and with the other groups and individuals.
9. A form that is compatible with and enhances the preceding and characteristics.
10. An optimum level of appropriate public health and sick care services accessible to all, and
11. High health status (high levels of positive health and low level of disease).
While we talking about A Healthy City,
there is six characteristics of a Healthy City projects :
1. Commitment to health :
They are based upon a commitment to health. They affirm
the holistic nature of health, recognizing the interaction between its
physical, mental, social and spiritual dimensions. Promotion of health and
prevention of disease are their priorities. They assume that health can be
created through the cooperative efforts of individuals and groups in the city.
2. Political decision-making :
They require political decision-making for public
health. Housing, environment, education, social service and other programms of
city government have a major effect on the state of health in cities. Healthy
Cities projects strengthen the contribution of such programms to health by
influencing the political decisions of city council.
3. Inter sectional action :
They generate inter sectoral action. The term “inter sectoral action” describes the process through which
organizations working outside the health sector change their activities so that
they contribute more to health. Urban planning which supports physical fitness
by providing ample green space for recreation in the city is an example of inter sectoral action. Healthy
Cities projects create organizational mechanisms through which city departments
and other bodies come together to negotiate their contribution to such action.
4. Community participation :
They emphasize community participation. People
participate in health through their lifestyle choices, their use of health
services, their views on health issues and their work in community groups.
Healthy Cities projects promote more active roles for people in all of these
areas. They provide means by which people have a direct influence on project
decisions and, through the project, on the activities of city departments and
other organizations.
5. Innovation :
They work through processes of innovation. Promoting
health and preventing disease through inter sectoral action requires a constant search for new ideas and
methods. The success of Healthy Cities projects depends upon their ability to
create opportunities for innovation within a climate that supports change.
Projects do this by spreading knowledge of innovative methods, creating
incentives for innovation and recognizing the achievements of those who
experiment with new policies and programms.
6. Healthy public policy :
Their outcome is healthy public policy. The success of
Healthy Cities projects is reflected in the degree to which policies that
create settings for health are in effect throughout the city administration.
Projects achieve their goals when homes, schools, workplaces and other parts of
the urban environment become healthier settings in which to live. Political
decisions, intersectoral action, community
participation and innovation promoted through Healthy Cities projects work
together to achieve healthy public policy.
STREATEGY FOR FARIDABAD AS A HEALTHY
CITY :
To achieve the goal of a healthy city,
the quality of life of people living in the area must be good, and for that we
need to follow certain steps as ;
1.An Individual needs;
(a). A Home and .
(b). Money for buy a
Home.
(c). Access to Good
Food.
(d). A sense of
Safety & Belongings.
(e). Plenty of
opportunities for Working, Playing, Connecting & Learning.
We
make certain Objectives to Achieve the Goal of being A Healthy City ;
1. RELOCATION OF INDUSTRIES :
Relocating of
particular Industries due to which pollution occurs and by taking this steps
will be helpful in many ways:
Less traffic load on
inner roads.
Concentrated Density of housing and population are moved
or relocated.
Ground water scarcity
and polluting the water ways are reduced.
2. CHANGING THE CHAACTER OF INDUSTRIES:
When we talk about Relocating of industries, we only
want to relocating the industrial plant, not as a whole , we change the
character of industries as they relocated. For example, in the manufacturing
industry, we interchange with assemble / processing industries, or we try to
put Agro-based industry in place of those who relocated on peripheral.
3. VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTERS & SOCIAL
WELFARE PROGRAMS:
When we talk about
Dual Income, there is vocational training institute for the women in which they
learn skill development and join in the industries .
4. PROVIDING DUAL INCOME :
For improving the
quality of life economy is the main parameter, so theory of Dual Income will be
helpful in the particular location where density of Housing & Population
are larger.
5. MASSIFICATION OF 3rd LEVEL OF EDUCATION:
As for being a Healthy City, Education is
another most important parameter among the people, absence of this making difficulties in many ways, for them
and for developers/govt. If applied
there, it will be a door for the people of Faridabad to an IT Hub as Guru gram,
• THREE PHASE OF PROJECT DEVELOPMENT :
1. Getting Started:
•build support group ·
• understand ideas ·
• know the city ·
• find finances
• decide organization
·
• prepare proposal ·
• get approval
.
2. Getting Organized.
• Appoint committee
• analyze environment
·
• define project work
• set-up office ·
• plan strategy
• build capacity
• establish
accountability
3. Taking Action:
• increase health
awareness
• advocate strategic
planning
• mobilize inter sectoral action
• encourage community
participation ·
• promote innovation
• secure healthy
public policy
.
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