City PROFILE: “Barcelona: The experience of 40 years of health reports, a health for all policies tool”

IF 6.6 1区经济学 Q1 URBAN STUDIES Cities Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI:10.1016/j.cities.2025.105862

Carme Borrell , Juli Carrere , Maica Rodríguez-Sanz , Anna Gómez-Gutiérrez , Ferran Daban , Glòria Pérez , Lucia Artazcoz , M. Isabel Pasarín , Xavier Bartoll-Roca , Esther Sánchez-Ledesma , Gemma Serral , Marc Marí-Dell'Olmo , Tomas Montalvo , Katherine Pérez

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This article profiles the city of Barcelona, focusing on public health and its 40-year history of Health Reporting, and how these reports help to implement evidence-based policies.

The first section outlines the city's main characteristics, including its challenges and the description of public health in the city. Then we follow with an overview of the 40 years of health reports in the city, explaining the evolution through the years. Finally, we present five examples of how evidence on health and health impact of policies has been used to inform and drive public policies of housing, climate change, transport and road safety, socioeconomic inequalities, and COVID-19 inequalities.

Forty years after its inception, the Barcelona Health Report stands as a milestone in a long tradition of accountability to society regarding the health situation and its determinants in the city. This long-standing initiative reflects a continued political commitment to creating spaces for debate, transparency, and evidence-based policy-making. Also, it shows Barcelona's political commitment to promoting health equity. The lessons learned from this experience can provide valuable insights for other cities, particularly in Southern Europe, looking to enhance their health governance and policy frameworks through evidence-based approaches.

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城市简介：“巴塞罗那：40年卫生报告的经验，全民卫生政策工具”

本文介绍了巴塞罗那市，重点关注公共卫生及其40年的卫生报告历史，以及这些报告如何帮助实施循证政策。第一部分概述了城市的主要特征，包括城市面临的挑战和对城市公共卫生的描述。然后，我们概述了40年来该市的健康报告，解释了这些年来的演变。最后，我们举了五个例子，说明如何利用有关健康和政策对健康影响的证据，为住房、气候变化、交通和道路安全、社会经济不平等和COVID-19不平等的公共政策提供信息和推动。在《巴塞罗那卫生报告》问世40年后，它成为就该市卫生状况及其决定因素向社会负责的悠久传统中的一个里程碑。这一长期倡议反映了一项持续的政治承诺，即为辩论、透明度和循证决策创造空间。此外，它还显示了巴塞罗那促进卫生公平的政治承诺。从这一经验中吸取的教训可以为其他城市，特别是南欧的城市提供宝贵的见解，这些城市希望通过循证方法加强其卫生治理和政策框架。

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Cities URBAN STUDIES-

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11.20

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517

期刊介绍： Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy makers from national and local government, non-government organizations, academia and consultancy. The primary aims of the journal are to analyse and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.