URBAN HEALTH INDICATORS IN THE CONTEXT OF “HEALTHY CITIES” CONCEPT - A NEW PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE IN ROMANIA

摘要

As long as the urbanization and health have been always linked and the growing proportion of the population that lives in urban centers with the goal of creating healthy cities for all poses the major public health challenge of the 21st century, the purpose of this paper is getting an overview on some urban health indicators (population, education, fertility and morbidity) and healthy cities concept in Transylvania, Romania. Our results showed that the areas covered as demography, mortality and the quality of the environment offer basic, but good starting point information in providing the city health profile in order to identify current health challenges and indicate de health priorities at urban level. Most of all, this paper emphasizes the importance of urban health and urban planning nowadays, which open a new action field of public health.