title: Empowerment for Healthy Cities and communities in Korea.
abstract: The Healthy Cities project started in 1998 in Korea. Around the world, public health and healthy cities are becoming bigger and bigger priorities. Capacity mapping is an important tool for improving a country's health status. This study aims to review the initiation of the Korean "Healthy City" project. Korea follows a bottom-up approach for the development of Healthy City policies and has implemented plans accordingly. Korea has created a unique program through Healthy Cities; it has developed a Healthy City act, indicators for evaluating the program, a health impact assessment program, an award system, and a domestic networking system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine, Kangwon National University Hospital, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Ji Young
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Moon
authors.forename: Eun Woo
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Nam
authors.forename: Sarita
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dhakal
mesh_terms: D057191:Capacity Building / Q000458:organization & administration; D002947:Cities; D062489:Health Impact Assessment; D006291:Health Policy; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D015397:Program Evaluation; D056910:Republic of Korea; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014504:Urban Health; D014944:World Health Organization