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Building bridges – Sustainable Urban Health in Hamburg

rainer.fehr @ uni-bielefeld.de1, www.rfehr.eu [19-08] alf trojan: trojan @ uke.de2 claudia.hornberg @ uni-bielefeld.de (1)

1 Project „Building Bridges“ (! since 2013), Fakultät

Gesundheitswissenschaften, Universität Bielefeld, D

2 Institut für Medizinische Soziologie, Universität Hamburg, D

12th European Public Health Conference 2019 in Marseille, France: “Building bridges for solidarity and public health” Workshop (4.O) “Healthy Places”, 22 Nov 2019

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Sustainable Urban Health (SUH)

Looking at health and sustainability (as in SDGs) in an urban perspective Program “City of the future” by Berg foundation (D) fosters novel co-operation of disciplines and sectors. 2 key points:

• Credibility requires that health promotion /

protection / care is pursued sustainably

• An integrated view is meant to strengthen the

position of “health” and “sustainability” when competing for attention in urban development.

www.urban-health.de

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SUH Hamburg case study

Hamburg, 1.8 mill pop, city-state:

• Model exercise 2016: outlining the idea of

such a comprehensive account (sci-paper)

• Book 2018: 70 chapters, 100 authors, incl. his-

tory, health status, governance, health care, rehabilitation, prevention/promotion, Health in all Policies, integrative community projects

• A venerable NGO (from 1765) established a

SUH working group, fostering ongoing debate.

HiaP topics covered in the book: Consu- mer protection, Econ-

• my, Education, Train-

ing, Environment, Mo- bility, Research, Social issues, Integration,Su- stainability, Urban dev- elopement, Work incl. Occupational Safety

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Selected Results

Strenghtening bridges across disciplines and soci- etal sectors is feasible, incl. co-writing, debate The (relative) defragmentation helps to see health- related activities as part of urban culture Debate now proceeds from “city” to “region” Sources of encouragement:

• Link-up with comprehensive reports 1797ff
• 2018 Hamburg book shortlisted by a jury
• Survey responses > 50%
• Recognition of SUH as cross-cutting issue for

urban future-proofing.

1797 1801 1830

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Conclusions

Catch-up needs (in Hamburg and elsewhere): more focus on sustainability; systems level interaction & quality assurance; securing “collective memory” SUH = a moderate-cost, “no regrets” approach which can cooperatively be applied anywhere, informing professionals & civic society Wanted: Experiences from similar approaches in

• ther cities/areas – as a basis for comparative an-

alysis and mutual learning.