From the programme: Around the world, new agendas are emerging with a renewed focus on the wider determinants of health that are embedded in our urban plans, communities, major infrastructure and the built environment. This perspective is vital to embracing a whole-system approach to urban health and health inequalities. In the UK, the new Government has announced a ten-year plan to “fix the NHS”, centred on three important transitions. All three play directly into the wider healthy city agenda, which advocates for compact neighbourhoods with care services closer to home, smart city integration, and the design of the urban realm as an enabler of healthier lives and choices.
moving health services from hospital to the community;
shifting systems from analogue to digital;
and refocusing from treating sickness to health prevention.