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Health Promotion International, Vol. 8, No. 1, 31-40, 1993
© Oxford University Press 1993

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Healthy Cities and change: social movement or bureaucratic tool?

FRANCES ELAINE BAUM

South Australian Community Health Research Unit, Flinders University of South Australia Australia

Address for correspondence: Address for correspondence: F. E. Baum, South Australian Community Health Research Unit, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia

Healthy Cities is seen as a vision, project and movement. Its wide appeal leaves it open to losing touch with the core values envisaged by the origtnators of Healthy Cities. This paper considers the outcomes Healthy Cities should aim for in Australia and the processes by which they can be achieved It identifies the political ideology underlying the Ottawa Charter as social democratic and collectivist. Economic rationalism, individualism and misplaced professionalism are discussed as blocks to achieving Healthy Cities. It is suggested that professional workers seeking to promote health should operate within a 'health promotion winners' triangle' as many do currently. The paper concludes by arguing that Healthy Cities should ensure complacency does not permit a taken-for-granted economism, individualism and professionalism to dominate agendas for change and suggests ways in which collaborations with forces inside and outside bureaucracies may assist the processes of achieving healthier cities.

Key words: Healthy Cities; social change; healthy public policy


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