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Xarxa Espanyola de Ciutats Saludables
Spanish Healthy Cities Network
The Spanish Healthy Cities Network is the Section of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces dedicated to the promotion and protection of the health and well-being of the population, in keeping with the principles of action proper to the “Healthy Cities” project of the World Health Organization.
Since it was founded in 1988, the Spanish Healthy Cities Network has focussed its measures along the following lines:
• Ensuring intercommunication between the participating cities as regards the promotion and protection of health.
• Ensuring the maintenance of inter-institutional contacts.
• Promoting collaboration and joint action among the participating cities as regards the promotion and protection of health.
• Helping the participating cities to develop operative models of health promotion and protection in their community.
• Establishing unified assessment criteria and indicators that make it possible to evaluate measures for the promotion and protection of health.
• Establishing recommendations oriented towards the inclusion of quality processes in measures dealing with health promotion and protection.
• Maintaining contacts with other healthy city projects in the country, in other countries and other national networks as well as the European Network.
• Disseminating relevant information regarding the Spanish Healthy Cities Network, the Autonomous Region Networks and the European Network.
• Ensuring the maintenance of inter-institutional contacts.
• Promoting collaboration and joint action among the participating cities as regards the promotion and protection of health.
• Helping the participating cities to develop operative models of health promotion and protection in their community.
• Establishing unified assessment criteria and indicators that make it possible to evaluate measures for the promotion and protection of health.
• Establishing recommendations oriented towards the inclusion of quality processes in measures dealing with health promotion and protection.
• Maintaining contacts with other healthy city projects in the country, in other countries and other national networks as well as the European Network.
• Disseminating relevant information regarding the Spanish Healthy Cities Network, the Autonomous Region Networks and the European Network.
Through the Spanish Healthy Cities Network, the FEMP establishes yearly Collaboration Agreements with the Ministry of Health and Consumption to reinforce the Network.
The President of the Spanish Healthy Cities Network is Mr. Enric Llorca Ibáñez, the Mayor of Sant Andreu de la Barca (Barcelona).
At present, 146 Local Entities are affiliated, representing 17,350,693 inhabitants.
