Belfast - healthy city

Belfast - healthy city - Audio

In the late nineteen eighties, Belfast became part of the World Health Organisation's Healthy Cities Project. The aim was to get as many institutions as possible to make health central to their planning and to give the diverse communities of Belfast a real say in their future. What were the challenges they faced? What solutions did they evolve? In this album Healthy Cities founder member Ilona Kickbusch and Belfast health promotion professionals Joan Devlin, David Stewart and Mary Black explore the history of this important health project. They reveal the crucial role that partnerships across both public and private bodies played in the success of the project. This material, recorded in 2006, forms part of The Open University course K311 Promoting public health: skills, perspectives and practice.

1 minute 8 seconds
Belfast - healthy city
A short introduction to this album.
25 March 2010, 3:12 am
Transcript -- Belfast - healthy city
Transcript -- A short introduction to this album.
25 March 2010, 3:12 am
1 minute 59 seconds
Healthy Cities: the idea
Ilona Kickbusch on how the Healthy Cities Movement began in the mid nineteen eighties as a European initiative.
25 March 2010, 3:11 am
Transcript -- Healthy Cities: the idea
Transcript -- Ilona Kickbusch on how the Healthy Cities Movement began in the mid nineteen eighties as a European initiative.
25 March 2010, 3:11 am
2 minutes 10 seconds
Healthy Cities: the reality
Ilona Kickbusch on how the initiative spread out from Europe to the rest of the world, and is particularly important in South America.
25 March 2010, 3:10 am
Transcript -- Healthy Cities: the reality
Transcript -- Ilona Kickbusch on how the initiative spread out from Europe to the rest of the world, and is particularly important in South America.
25 March 2010, 3:10 am
1 minute 53 seconds
Belfast as a healthy city
Joan Devlin of Belfast Healthy Cities on the historical high levels of deprivation in Belfast.
25 March 2010, 3:09 am
Transcript -- Belfast as a healthy city
Transcript -- Joan Devlin of Belfast Healthy Cities on the historical high levels of deprivation in Belfast.
25 March 2010, 3:09 am
1 minute 17 seconds
Implementing WHO targets
Joan Devlin on how Belfast set out a five year plan dealing with issues such as urban planning and healthy aging.
25 March 2010, 3:08 am
Transcript -- Implementing WHO targets
Transcript -- Joan Devlin on how Belfast set out a five year plan dealing with issues such as urban planning and healthy aging.
25 March 2010, 3:08 am
1 minute 16 seconds
Influences on policy
David Stewart, director of public health, EHSSB, reveals how Belfast is influenced by what is happening in the UK and in Eire.
25 March 2010, 3:07 am
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