Shanghai consensus on healthy cities

Overview

Healthy Cities have been platforms for implementing good governance for health, as well as improving health literacy – that is, for promoting health. Building on experience with city-led health initiatives, mayors, committed to prioritize the political choice for health in all domains of city governance and to measure the health impact of all their policies and activities. Achieving the SDGs will require close synergy between the global and national goals, and their local plans and programmes. They have agreed to base their action on five governance principles which reflect the transformative agenda of the SDGs.