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Belfast Healthy Cities

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Second Seminar of Healthy Places, Healthy People series

10 November 2016

This second seminar in the Healthy Places, Healthy People series, gave an overview of how transport can contribute to healthy, vibrant and prosperous neighbourhoods, including examples of existing good practice. Planning can play an important role in improving connectivity and promoting more sustainable patterns of transport and travel as part of the transition to a low carbon economy. Active travel and more sustainable forms of travel can help tackle health issues such as obesity and support physical activity and mental health.

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First seminar of Healthy Places, Healthy People

5 November 2016

A liveable city contains complete communities with mixed‐use and affordable housing well connected to jobs, education, services and leisure venues. This first seminar in a series of five on Healthy Places, Healthy People,  explored how planning can contribute to creating people oriented neighbourhoods, and how local communities can help inform this process. 

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Belfast Healthy Cities puts November focus on healthy urban planning

2 November 2016

- Weekly community based seminars begin this Friday -

 

With smart planning and innovative policy, the physical areas we live in can have a positive impact on our health and wellbeing. That’s the view of the World Health Organization

initiative in Northern Ireland, Belfast Healthy Cities who have organised a month of seminars in November in partnership with the four Belfast Area Partnerships and East Belfast Community Development Agency on healthy urban planning.

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HEPA Europe 2016

5 October 2016

The 12th Annual Meeting and 7th Conference of HEPA (Health Enhancing Physical Activity) Europe took place in Belfast 28-30 September 2016, hosted by Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University. 

The theme of this year’s conference was ‘Walking the Walk’: what should the public health policy response be to the evidence for physical activity and saw a range of plenary, symposia, parallel and poster sessions. 

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Belfast Healthy Cities Report on Walking Belfast: Older People's Views

3 October 2016

A report on developing a Walking Assessment Tool for older people was launched on Friday at the City Hall by Belfast Healthy Cities, the World Health Organization (WHO) body in Northern Ireland.

The launch of ‘Walking Belfast: Older People’s Views’, which forms part of Belfast Healthy Cities’ work on Healthy Urban Environments and Age-friendly Cities, coincided with WHO International Day of Older Persons.

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Healthy Places, Healthy Children

28 September 2016

Pupils at St Paul’s Primary School in west Belfast have used their voice to improve their local neighbourhood following an initiative from Belfast Healthy Cities, the World Health Organization body in Northern Ireland.

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Regions for Health Network meeting in Kaunas, Lithuania

22 September 2016

Representing WHO Secretariat, Joan Devlin is pictured at the Regions for Health Network meeting in Kaunas, Lithuania with WHO European Regional Director Zsuzsanna Jakab and Swedish RHN representative Elisabeth Bengtsson.

Sustainable Development Goal of Reducing Inequalities

22 September 2016

Belfast Healthy Cities sign up to support Sustainable Development Goal of Reducing Inequalities at the recent WHO Healthy Cities Coordinators training session in Turku, Finland.

KidsSpace @ Culture Night Belfast 2016

19 September 2016

Belfast Healthy Cities facilitated KidsSpace at the city’s annual Culture Night on Friday 16 September.  KidsSpace encourages children to play and use space freely.  Once again we were supported by community artists and Jump, Jiggle and Jive in Buoys Park, Cathedral Quarter. 

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Children's Voices, Children's Places Event 20 June 2016

Children's Voices, Children's Places Event 20 June 2016
20 June 2016

Local children were given a voice on the development of Child Friendly Places at the Children’s Voices, Children’s Places event which took place at Belfast City Hall where more than 250 primary school children took the opportunity to set out their priorities and question local decision makers. Participants were welcomed by The High Sheriff, Jim Rodgers and also featured teachers and pupils from Greece as well as policy experts in the field.

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