Tainan Healthy City Project II
This is a continuity of three-year program. The second year is organizing stage
and its purpose includes: setting up native indicators and city health profile
in Tainan, accomplishing the white paper of Healthy city-Tainan, raising
community ability to implement healthy city, creating the mechanism of
implementation and assessment which the health city promote and holding the
conference of Healthy City-Tainan. Objectives to be Achieved the second year
(the trial phase) are raising citizens` awareness of the current situation in
Tainan City, developing a city health profile for Tainan City Initiating
specific Tainan Healthy Cities action plans, formulating local Healthy Cities
indicators reflecting characteristics of Tainan City, hosting international
Healthy Cities conferences, promoting partnerships with Healthy Cities worldwide
and establishing the mechanisms for implementation and evaluation. Following are
our result: (1) Setting up Tainan healthy city profile. Collecting the data from
2001 to 2002, it has not announced or obtained the information in 2003, so
continuously collects and establishes the data. (2) Healthy City white paper.
Structure of the context is including : a)Foreword , b)Formulation and
Monitoring of Healthy Cities indicators , c)Tainan Healthy Cities Project,
d)Tainan Healthy Cities global interchange project. (3) Implementing
demonstration projects. There are 13 demonstration projects : 5 projects in
Health dimension, 4 projects in Environmental dimension and 4 projects in Social
dimension. Projects in Health Dimension: a) Raising Healthy fitness, b)
Promoting the healthy diet and nutrition to label, c) Improving the quality of
long-term care, d) Preventing suicide, e)Establishing safe community. Projects
in Environment Dimension: a) Building the clean and safe environment, b)
Promoting the city to beautify green, c) Improving the sport leisure, d) Walking
and riding bicycle. Projects in Social dimension: a) Setting up the neighborhood
system, b) Improving the employment, c) Strengthening the care of disadvantages
group, d) Promoting high Quality of culture life. (4)Choosing outstanding
communities and appraising their score. In order to implement community
participation, we set up the participation mechanism from bottom to top. Our
group drawn up 17 plans which are suitable for communities according to healthy
indicators. (5)Relating to healthy city indicators and budget. In order to make
the relevant strategies of Tainan can be combined, we have collected the
relevant strategies and budget to put forward in2005 , and held the "healthy
city camp of Tainan" to integrate plans and expected to pass relevant plans in
the future. (6)Establishing pre-examine of demonstration projects. (7)Holding
the international Healthy City conference: Inviting famous international
professionals Dr. Leonard Duhl (U.S.A.) , Dr. Trevor Hancock (Canada) and Dr.
Iain Butterworth (Australia) to share health city implementations and their
experiences. We also invited the chief of the Bureau of Health Promotion to
introduce the policy, objectives, and future in Taiwan`s community. (8)Designing
the Logo of Tainan Healthy City. (9)Publishing the second healthy city journal.