Evaluation of Healthy Cities Projects: A Case Study of 13th Aban Street | ||
| The International Journal of Humanities | ||
| Article 2, Volume 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-32 PDF (1.03 M) | ||
| Authors | ||
| Akbar Parhizkar* 1; Mohammadreza Hafezniya1; Mahdy Taherkhani1; Roudabeh Farhady2 | ||
| 1Department of Geography, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University | ||
| 2Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| In 1985-86, the European office of World Health Organization (WHO) proposed the health promotion program under the theme “Healthy Cities Projects”. With the aim of securing individual and collective welfare, the staffs of healthy city in Tehran also began their official activities at 13th Aban Street at Rey (Tehran’s 20th municipal district) along with community participation and intersectoral coordination. Since, the “Healthy Cities Projects”, emphasised on intersectoral coordination, self-awareness and community participation; the issue of the current research is whether or not there is any specific difference of opinion among people and officials regarding this project? For this purpose, people’s viewpoints on the activities was conducted through 424 samples from 13th Aban Street coincidentally with 46 officials of the “Healthy Cities Projects” and thus analytical study was carried out keeping in view level of differences between people and officials of “Healthy Cities Projects” and their viewpoints regarding community participation in the physical and mental health, individual security, environment and utmost to sports and training. The results indicate that with reference to the satisfaction level on “Healthy Cities Projects”, there isn't a significant difference between people's and officials viewpointsBut, with respect to their viewpoints about the level of community participation, there exists significant differences between people's and officials viewpoints in the fields of “Healthy Cities Projects” physical and mental health, individual and social safety, environment and utmost sportive and educational activities. The obtained results from officials, therefore, are more than those obtained from people. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Physical and Mental Health; Healthy Cities; Community participation; Health promotion; Intersectoral Coordination | ||
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