What makes for sustainable Healthy Cities initiatives?--a review of the evidence from Noarlunga, Australia after 18 years
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22945707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Franziska Baum (0000-0002-2294-1368, Flinders University), Gwyneth Jolley, Richard Hicks, Kate Saint, Steven Parker (0000-0002-9118-2641) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 259-265 |
| Publication date | 2006-07-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Promotion International (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-4824 • E-ISSN: 1460-2245 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/heapro/dal023 |
| PMID | 16849380 |
| OpenAlex | W2162900115 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 8 |
This paper examines the factors that have enabled the Healthy Cities Noarlunga (HCN) initiative to be sustainable over 18 years (1987-2005). Sustainability related to the ability of the initiative to continue to operate continuously in a manner that indicated its existence was accorded value by the community and local service providers. The analysis is based on a narrative review of 29 documents related to HCN, including a number of evaluations. Nine factors emerged as important to ensuring sustainability: strong social health vision; inspirational leadership; a model that can adapt to local conditions; ability to juggle competing demands; strongly supported community involvement that represents genuine engagement; recognition by a broad range of players that Healthy Cities is a relatively neutral space in which to achieve goals; effective and sustainable links with a local university; an outward focus open to international links and outside perspectives; and, most crucial, the initiative makes the transition from a project to an approach and a way of working. These sustainability factors are likely to be relevant to a range of complex, community-based initiatives.
Community engagement · Narrative · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Sustainability · Sustainable community · Sustainable development · Value (mathematics) · Computer Science · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Health disparities and outcomes · Public Health Policies and Education
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| Unique citing works | 26 |
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| Citations per year | 1,44 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |