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“健康城市”仅仅只是健康+城市吗？
今天，请和我们一起了解一下“健康城市”这个概念。你知道吗？如今有超过半数的中国人居住在城市之中。因此，城市对于健康有很大的决定作用——城市不健康，对居住其中的人来说，意味着什么呢？
我们大多数人通过城市与政府管理发生最直接的接触。大多数人在城市里生活、工作、娱乐。此外，越来越多人因为追求更好的教育、工作和服务而来到城市，城市的规模也不断扩张。城市的重要性日益上升。据估计，到2025年，中国将有70%的人口居住在城市中。
那么，什么样的城市是健康的呢？
你可能听过不少对城市的赞美：
“道路边的鲜花让城市更美！”
“这个城市真安全！”
“我向往大城市，因为那里有很多机会！”
你可能还听过人们对城市的期望：
“如果有更多的绿地和公园就好了！”
“如果空气更清新会不会更好？”
“如果交通不这么拥堵就好了！”
也许你自己也在不停地想着这些问题。我们想说：一方面，建设健康城市，没有放之四海而皆准的配方；另一方面，如果我们停下来仔细想一想，我们都希望生活在能使我们变得快乐、健康并充满活力的城市之中。
快速发展的城镇化给我们带来了机会，把城市打造成促进健康的平台。目前大多数人都居住在城市中，将来还会有更多的人来到城市。为建设健康城市所做的努力和投入，即使再小，也可以影响许多人的健康和福祉——例如优化空气质量、保障道路安全、增加城市绿化和提供更健康的食物。在这些领域持续的投入和努力可以帮助人们保持健康。另一方面，不健康的城市环境会加剧不平等、贫困和不良健康状况。
人们都希望生活健康。而且大多数人都生活在城市中。那么，打造以健康为中心的城市，难道不是正确的方向吗？
健康城市建设，您有什么想法呢？快来告诉我们吧！
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Why we need our cities to be
Healthy Cities
Here's a challenge: list the top five nouns in your head that you can place the word ‘healthy’ in front of. What do you think of? Perhaps the first things that come to mind are: healthy people, healthy life and healthy diet? What if we asked you to think bigger? Perhaps things like healthy economy, healthy environment, even ‘Healthy China 2030’ come to mind? Indeed, the word ‘healthy’ can be used to describe so many things, almost all of them positive – but in each of these contexts, what does it mean?
Today, we want to introduce you to the idea of ‘Healthy Cities’. Did you know that right now, more than half of the Chinese population lives in an urban area? So cities play a big role in determining health – if a city isn’t healthy, what does this mean for the people living in it?
Cities are the most direct contact most of us have with government. It's within city boundaries that most people will live, work and play. More importantly, cities will continue to grow, both in size and significance, as more and more people move to cities for better education, jobs and services. In fact, by 2025, 7 out of 10 people in China will live in an urban setting.
What makes a city healthy? You may have heard praises for cities such as ‘The city looks so beautiful with flowers along the road!’, or ‘This city is so safe!’, or ‘I want to move here because there's so much to do!’. You may have also heard people wishing for more: ‘If only there were more trees and parks!’, or ‘Wouldn't it be nice if the air was cleaner?’, or ‘I wish there was less traffic!’. Maybe you even think some of these things yourself from time to time. There is no universal, one-size-fits-all formula for a healthy city, but if we stop and think about it, most of us want cities that help us to be happy, healthy and inspired!
The rapid urbanization of our world presents us with a unique opportunity to use cities as platforms for promoting health. Given that so many of us live in cities now, and even more of us will do so in the future, even small investments to build healthier cities can impact the health and well-being of many – through things like making the air cleaner, the roads safer, urban spaces greener and more accessible, and the food in markets and shops healthier. Investment and effort in continuously improving all of these areas can help people to stay healthy. On the other hand, unhealthy urban environments can entrench inequality, poverty and poor health.
Since we all want to be healthy, and most of us live in a city, do you think people and health-centered cities are the right way to go?
We’d love to hear what you think!
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