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Connectivity, Mobility, and Healthy Cities

WebThe Healthy Cities Network aims to deepen the relationship between health and the urban environment, following a holistic approach by focusing on three overarching topics: …

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HEALTHY CITIES: Bridging Urban Planning and Health

WebHEALTHY CITIES, a network of nine partners (local and planning authorities), is designing integrated action plans that bridge urban planning and health. Through its methodology …

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Putting value on a healthy city

WebThe health benefits of good urban design are well-known, ranging from better cardiovascular outcomes to lower rates of depression. But the economic value of this …

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Halfway Through Healthy Cities: Reflections and Revisions

WebThough the pandemic slowed progress in all kinds of work around the world, it brought health into new conversations and ultimately has strengthened support for healthy urban …

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Gender Equal Cities are Healthy Cities

WebA healthy city is a gender equal city, one in which the urban landscape has been designed with the diverse needs, activities and movement patterns of its population in mind. …

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Making cities healthier, faster

WebMultiple studies have shown that healthy urban policies such as encouraging active mobility and protecting green urban spaces improve life expectancy, healthier babies, fewer …

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Holistic Health and Urban Planning: Visualising Impact with the …

WebIn efforts to develop and hone the HCG, the team recently met with experts to define a holistic approach to urban planning as a health generator. This roundtable included …

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Designing human habitats healthy enough to prescribe

WebUsing the urban environment to heal. Healthy Cities team members Marta Rofin Serra and Sofia Aivalioti were recently invited to lead city practitioners to understand how to apply …

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Green public spaces for health and well-being

WebTo scale up these activities, it is important to monitor the effectiveness of various options and link them to specific public green spaces. This requires a collaborative co-creative …

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Digital solutions for the prevention of chronic diseases

WebChronic diseases are a tremendous burden to patients and the healthcare system alike. In Europe, they account for 86% of all deaths.The UK is no exception, as the World Health …

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Social Innovation: Building blue and green infrastucture in cities

WebJW. My fellow researchers and I define social innovation in our upcoming policy brief as the development and implementation of novel interventions, processes, programmes, …

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Reclaiming the Public Space for People and Nature

WebIt started first as a protest and transformed into a weekly holiday where citizens enjoy family walks and bike rides, recovering the urban public space ever since. In 1991 another …

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Protecting our critical infrastructure from flood damage: A study in

WebCritical infrastructure is a combination of systems and technologies that are essential to our health, safety, security and economic well-being; for example, electricity production, …

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Are smart city technologies the answer to improve urban resilience

WebTo summarise, smart city technologies can be very helpful and add to the resilience of a city. However, there are certainly obstacles for urban planners, emergency services and all …

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Bax & Company’s Sofia Aivalioti tours frontrunner cities as Lead …

WebThe city of Benissa, Spain, recently welcomed Bax & Company’s Sofia Aivalioti as lead expert of One Health 4 Cities. The URBACT project brings together 9 European cities to …

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3 key factors to consider when innovating home care in the EU

Web3. Adoption and technology barriers. When speaking of home care, we often refer to patients who are of higher age, as 70% of home care patients are 65 or older (Mitzner et al., …

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Bax & Willems spreads its wings under a new name: Bax & Company

WebThe Bax & Company team. It’s not just changing the name and logo of the company – the vision, mission, values and strategy have to be realigned with the direction the company …

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Automotive lightweighting; a powerful ally in the fight against …

WebThe main drivers for lightweighting are increasingly stricter regulations on emissions, fuel consumption and efficiency around the globe. In Europe, these are expressed by the …

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