HEALTHY CITY

HEALTHY CITY

(waiting my daughter at hospital before New Year 2012)

Healthy City, what does it mean? Does city as well as living creatures that can be detected on the health? What kind of a healthy city?Does terminology healthy city emerged from the health experts?

Definition of healthy cities in Indonesia come from the ministry of health because their concern the increasing unhealthy people. Of course the definition should not only physical, but also people who live in it and their relation with nature and other people.

Often infrastructruktur experts develop a physical criteria for healthy living of humans.
Ministry of Housing (ED Heripoerwanto, 2009) in the workshop on Minimum Service Standard of housing and Settlements (3 September 2009) to realize a healthy and safe environment mention sustainable human settlement needs to pay attention to four issues, such as to save the input of resources (land, water, energy, building materials) ; minimizing waste (solid, liquid, air pollution, noise, heat, gases); ensure fairness (intergenerational, inter-regional, social); ensure good decision-making (delegation and participation).

Mayor of Surabaya in her presentation of Eco2city in Bappenas showed a decrease in the number of sick people after related programs such as slum upgrading, maintenance of green open space, enhance of environmental quality related to sanitation and solid waste.
Data show that 88% of diarrheal disease is attributable to unsafe drinking water supply, Inadequate sanitation, and poor hygiene. In Indonesia 1.5 million children Died Caused by diarrheal disease each year (WHO, 2008 in Margaret M. Sintorini, 2011). And many people also got from dengue fever disease (DB and DBD).

Healthy city is defined by the health ministry and emphasis on guidelines on the basis of the ability of people (communities) in improving health in their environment, in this community. The indicators associated with the indicator in the MDGs (Guidelines Implementation District/City Healthy ( Joint Regulation of the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Health No. 34 in 2005. No: 1138/Menkes/PB/VIII/2005, August 3, 2005)

In fact it was not enough, because there is a relation between man and nature, and people and people that reflect people healthy.

The number of cases of suicide, like jumping off buildings in urban areas, and drinking an insect repellent in the countryside, killing as irritability, etc.

But what definition of healthy city that is more adequate to what we hope? we hope that healthy city will lead to healthy people, more productive, less import on medicine/pharmacy, and finally more happiness people.