TY - JOUR
T1 - Advancing healthy communities policy through tourism, leisure, and events research
AU - Glover, Troy D.
AU - Stewart, William P.
N1 - Funding Information:
The term healthy communities began initially as a movement led by the World Health Organization (WHO) aimed at addressing urban health through physical, political, and institutional change (Hancock & Duhl, 1986). Known originally as Healthy Cities, the healthy communities movement (HCM) stems from the First International Conference on Health Promotion, sponsored by the WHO, in Ottawa, Canada in 1986. The conference culminated in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, which outlined fundamental rudiments for health: peace, shelter, education, food, income, a stable environment, sustainable resources, social justice, and equity. Quite significantly, the Charter defined health holistically as a resource (or means) for the fulfilment of desires and needs in everyday life, not simply through a medical lens as the absence of disease. In this context, being ‘healthy’ refers to all matters of well-being and quality of life (Korp, 2010). Recognition of the interplay of social, environmental, and economic determinants of health served as the foundation of an international movement called Healthy Cities that emerged from the conference with the release of the report Healthy Cities: Promoting Health in the Urban Context (Hancock & Duhl, 1986). While the term healthy cities continues to pervade in Europe, North Americans have adopted ‘healthy communities’ as a more inclusive term that embraces rural, suburban, and urban communities.
PY - 2013/7
Y1 - 2013/7
N2 - This introduction to the special issue of JPRiTLE on Advancing Healthy Communities through Tourism, Leisure, and Events is aimed at inspiring a healthy communities research agenda in our field. The authors argue advancing healthy communities/cities ought to be at the core of what we do as tourism, leisure, and events (TLE) scholars. Accordingly, this introductory article endeavours to advance healthy communities as a line of research by encouraging TLE scholars to forward the World Health Organization's Ottawa Charter for health promotion and assist in the exploration of public values for healthy communities. In so doing, the authors provide readers with background about the healthy communities movement and offer direction in terms of how research can build healthy communities through evidence-based policy.
AB - This introduction to the special issue of JPRiTLE on Advancing Healthy Communities through Tourism, Leisure, and Events is aimed at inspiring a healthy communities research agenda in our field. The authors argue advancing healthy communities/cities ought to be at the core of what we do as tourism, leisure, and events (TLE) scholars. Accordingly, this introductory article endeavours to advance healthy communities as a line of research by encouraging TLE scholars to forward the World Health Organization's Ottawa Charter for health promotion and assist in the exploration of public values for healthy communities. In so doing, the authors provide readers with background about the healthy communities movement and offer direction in terms of how research can build healthy communities through evidence-based policy.
KW - community well-being
KW - democratic engagement
KW - lifestyle
KW - social determinants of health
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U2 - 10.1080/19407963.2013.816019
DO - 10.1080/19407963.2013.816019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84880466459
SN - 1940-7963
VL - 5
SP - 109
EP - 122
JO - Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events
JF - Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events
IS - 2
ER -