Thread by @WHO

Today is #WorldCitiesDay🏙️! Join us and celebrate communities & cities around the 🌏🌍🌎 working towards innovative approaches to make residents healthier during #COVID19!

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The #COVID19 Response Center provides technical guidance to help cities at the forefront of the COVID-19 crisis make the best possible decisions to protect the health of their citizens.

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Any efforts to improve human health are doomed unless they address the critical interface between humans & animals, and the existential threat of #ClimateChange that is making our earth less habitable.

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Urban environments are key factors in healthy ageing - including home, community and broader society as well as the systems that support them and the services that they implement. #Cities4Health

Policies and investments supporting cleaner transport and power generation, as well as energy-efficient housing and municipal waste management can reduce key sources of outdoor air pollution. #Cities4Health

Investments in health-based urban and territorial planning secure long-term health and wellbeing legacies for a growing proportion of humans #Cities4Health

Take a look at the thread below showing how cities around 🌍🌏🌎 are taking action against #COVID19 👇

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1321096549636689926

A healthy city aims to:

✅create a health-supportive environment
✅achieve a good quality of life
✅provide basic sanitation and hygiene needs
✅supply access to health care

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