Indicators
WHO 32 Healthy City Indicators
A. Healthy City
When WHO's healthy city development plan was in its first stage (1990), the planning team devised 53 indicators to assist each city in gathering information that is sufficient to describe the city's health conditions. Before these 53 indicators were devised, the planning team already knew that although traditional quantitative indicators that were health-related (for example, mortality rates) were relatively easy to use, they were unable to provide a comprehensive view to help us understand the health conditions of a city completely. Therefore, qualitative indicators (for example, social support) were included when devising the 53 indicators.
From 1992 to 1994, a total of 47 cities adopted the use of these 53 indicators. Cross-field specialists analyzed information gathered from these cities and the office that formed healthy city plans in the WHO felt that there was a need to modify some of the 53 indicators. Therefore, the inappropriate indicators and ones that lack reliability were excluded. The text description of the indicators has been modified to clearly define the meaning of the indicators. From them, we have the WHO32 indicators shown below.