Sustainable Urban Health in Hamburg rainer.fehr @ uni-bielefeld.de 1 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

12th European Public Health Conference 2019 in Marseille, France: “Building bridges for solidarity and public health” Workshop (4.O) “Healthy Places”, 22 Nov 2019 Building bridges – Sustainable Urban Health in Hamburg rainer.fehr @ uni-bielefeld.de 1 , www.rfehr.eu [19-08] alf trojan: trojan @ uke.de 2 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 1

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 www.urban-health.de position of “health” and “sustainability” when competing for attention in urban development. 2 [19_08] Building bridges – Sustainable Urban Health in Hamburg

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- HiaP topics covered tory, health status, governance, health care, in the book: Consu- mer protection, Econ- rehabilitation, prevention/promotion, Health in omy, Education, Train- ing, Environment, Mo- all Policies , integrative community projects bility, Research, Social issues, Integration,Su- • A venerable NGO (from 1765) established a stainability, Urban dev- elopement, Work incl. SUH working group, fostering ongoing debate. Occupational Safety 3 [19_08] Building bridges – Sustainable Urban Health in Hamburg

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 4 [19_08] Building bridges – Sustainable Urban Health in Hamburg

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 other cities/areas – as a basis for comparative an- alysis and mutual learning. 5 [19_08] Building bridges – Sustainable Urban Health in Hamburg