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Health Promotion International, Vol. 14, No. 3, 261-270, September 1999
© Oxford University Press 1999

Healthy Cities: urban social entrepreneurship for health

Evelyne de Leeuw

World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research on Healthy Cities, Universiteit Maastricht, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands

Address for correspondence: Evelyne de Leeuw World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research on Healthy Cities Universiteit Maastricht PO Box 616 6200 MD Maastricht The Netherlands E-mail: evelyne.deleuuw{at}gvo.unimaas.nl

SUMMARY

Social entrepreneurship is key to the success of health promotion and Healthy City development. An overview of entrepreneurial skills is provided, and a policy change model in which social entrepreneurs play a key role is described. The model has been tested in a selection of 10 European, officially WHO-designated, Healthy Cities. Recognition by the entrepreneur of the components of the model, and subsequent strategic action, indeed influenced urban policy agendas. However, the two cities that were most effective in doing so also had institutionalized their entrepreneurial capacities. This seems therefore the next challenge in health promotion.

Key words: health policy; Healthy Cities; social entrepreneurship


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