Working Group 2

WG2 Leaders

eMOTIONAL Cities | WELLBASED

Scope

Improving health and health equity requires an approach that is based on evidence and up-to-date information. A monitoring system that supplies information to policy-makers and other stakeholders about the distribution and trends in health outcomes, risk factors, ill-health prevention and treatment and their determinants is an essential part of the social determinants approach to improving health equity.

Health determinants are at the center of the call and thus at the core of all our cluster projects, as they are the main cause of health inequalities, most of them avoidable through the right interventions and policies. Most of these inequalities in health occur in urban environments.

The main objective of this WG is to share knowledge, scientifically and evidence-based, around a general framework ready to be applied that allows identifying health determinants for any city, to better understand the underlying causes of health concerns and inequities and improve priority-setting and identification of the optimal mix of policy options. We will discuss the topic in line with the concepts of climate emergency and smart cities.

The focus of WG2 will be on:

• • • Monitoring health equity and the distribution of health determinants at city level and disaggregated within city.
    • Measurement and monitoring of health determinants in cities (both city-aggregated level and district-based, to identify most vulnerable areas): select a set of basic common indicators, and data, as well as identify existing tools for monitoring these parameters at the city and more disaggregated levels. This is the basis for sound and evidence-based decision-making at policy levels. The work will be based on health determinants identified by our own projects..
    • Sharing mechanisms to assess the impact on the health of urban interventions, find novel approaches and monitoring and evaluation methods for urban health inequity interventions.