| Keywords |
Healthy cities ; Economic indicators ; Environmental indicators ; Social indicators ; HTE(Healthy Transport Environment) |
| Abstract |
The rapid change in industrial structure and population concentration on urban areas have caused excessive urbanization in Korea. The steady increase in urban population has produced many unhealthy factors in cities that have a negative impact on people’ health such as densely populated urban structure, traffic jam, environmental pollution, shortage of housing, unemployment (poverty), and safety accidents. These dysfunctional phenomena are raising serious health problems to urban residents. In order to solve these problems, the WHO defined the concept of ‘health city’ that makes continuous efforts to improve citizens’ quality of healthy life by giving all people the right to lead a healthy and safe life and improving the physical and social environment of cities. The transportation system, which is part of physical infrastructure of urban environment closely related to citizens’ health, should be implemented in an environmentally sustainable way by guaranteeing basic public rights based on convenient mobility and accessibility. Thus, this study analyzed the contents of 49 healthy city projects promoted for 3 years from 2008 to 2010 among 66 healthy city projects in Korea. Based on the results, we developed health transportation strategies suitable for Korean health cities and proposed an environmentally sustainable transportation system. The proposal is expected to be helpful to make health city transportation policies that can cope effectively with rapid and disorganized urbanization. |