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Health promotion is a growing field, spreading into various settings. Thispaper focuses on the city as a setting for health promotion and on the’’Healthy Cities project‘‘ (HCP) of the Regional Office for Europe of theWorld Health Organization in particular. In the context of the HCP, variousactivities to promote the health of older citizens have been carried out inrecent years. These are illustrated in this paper through case studies.
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Keller, I.M., Kalache, A. Promoting healthy aging in cities: The Healthy Cities project in Europe. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 12, 287–298 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006539003961
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