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1. Brno Healthy City Profile
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2. BRNO
the second largest city in the Czech Republic
370 000 inhabitants
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3. Healthy Cities Project
International project initiated by World Health Organization
Aim
● improving health and quality of life
● support to sustainable development
Strategies
● Health 21
● Agenda 21
Healthy Cities Project enables implementation of these global strategies at
the local level.
Principles
● intersectoral cooperation
● participation of the public
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4. European Healthy Cities
Network
3 000 European cities involved in the Healthy Cities
Project
100 cities are members of the WHO European
Healthy Cities Network
The City of Brno has been the member of the WHO
European Network since 1996.
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5. Brno Healthy City Profile
One of the key conditions for the effective
implementation of the HC activities was to
understand the health situation and living conditions
in our city.
Strategic document describing health of the
population and factors influencing health and quality
of life.
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6. Brno Healthy City Profile
The elaboration of HC Profile has been divided into
two parts:
1. Description of the quality of life based on the result of
the regular monitoring and statistic data
● demography
● state of health
● environment
● transport
● safety
● social welfare 6

7. Brno Healthy City Profile
2. Representative sociological surveys covering both
the adult population and Brno children and young
people.
Sociological surveys provide us with information
about the lifestyle, the needs and opinions
of inhabitants.
The main questions of the surveys were
interconnected with the indicators in the statistic
part of the HC Profile.
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8. Process of elaboration of
Healthy City Profile
1. Establishing the intersectoral working group
Coordination: Brno-Healthy City Office
● Masaryk University, Medical Faculty
● Public Health Institute
● City Health Institute
● Municipality Departments
2. Determination of areas affecting health and quality of life
3. Defining the indicators in particular chapters
4. Collecting statistic data and organizing sociological surveys
5. Realising analysis and interpretation of the data
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9. Contribution of Healthy
City Profile
City policy planning
● Brno City Health Plan, Strategy for Brno
Starting point for initiation activities supporting health
● Brno Days for Health, European Mobility Week, Active Ageing
Program
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10. Thank you for your attention.
Ivana Draholová
Brno Healthy City Office
www.zdravemesto.brno.cz
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