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I need your help to make the www.healthycities.org web site, truly international and in multiple languages. Please let me know how you can help
Friend:
We are in the prosses of making the HEALTHY
CITIES site, [www.healthycities.org] one which
primarily deals with international issues of of cities
and communities. The Coalition for Healthier
Cities and Communities will be purely domestic.
Check it out at www.healthycommunities.org.
Our international focus will be on cities and
comunities; how to improve the quality of life of
the total community. As part of our concerns, we
will focus upon community organizations,
transportation, housing, jobs and economic
development, women's organizations and gender
issues, environment, NGO's, religious and faith
communities, health, and more.
It is our belief that the central focus cannot be any
one area of concern. The issues we face are
systemic, often not geographic and certainly not
discipline oriented. In our view too many of the
Healthy Cities and Communities programs are
traditionally health oriented; towards public
health. They are concerned with the community,
with health as the center. In this post-Copernican
world, health is but one factor in a larger system,
admittedly a very important one. To achieve the
goal of making this site usable to community and a
wide of other groups,we propose:
- sections for different parts of the world. We
want to be in contact with people, projects,
academia, research, and gather stories from all
kinds of local work.
- connections to NGO's and important issues.
See www.oneworld.org for one of the best
coverages of these areas.
- material and special sections in Spanish,
Chinese and other languages
- area editors to cover all that is going on. Stories
of program successes and failures.
- links to a wide variety of diverse materials
- developing tools to synthesize information,so
that what is needed is easily available without
prolonged search. If you want the best
knowledge in specific areas, it will be there in
usable form.
We are looking for inputs from you.
- what are your suggestions?
- are you willing to be a correspondent?
- are there people you can suggest to be
reponsible for a area of the world or a subject?
- what sites should we point to?
- what are the important things you want
covered?
- is there anything we can help with that would
make your work easier?
In sum, we are changing the site, but need your
help first. This is your site.
PLEASE CONTACT ME AT:
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Len Duhl
<bold>Len Duhl, MD
</bold>Professor of Public Health and Urban Planning
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-7360
Phone:510 642-1715 FAX: 510-643-6981
Please check the Healthy Cities site at: http://www.healthycities.org for
information, links, discussion groups and tutorials..