Creating a Healthy City

Develop a 4 page healthy-city initiative suitable for implementation by your city. Competency 1: Assess basic environmental health principles, theories, and issues. Define the term environmental health. Assess how healthy cities relate to environmental health. Analyze obstacles for a city in becoming a healthy city. Describe the financial issues involved in creating a healthy city. Analyze how environmental health is an individual concern. Analyze how environmental health is a global concern. Competency 3: Apply personal and professional decisions based upon an understanding of environmental risks. Describe how a city could become prepared for disasters. Assess benefits of developing a healthy city to one’s self, family, and community. Evaluates the term, environmental health, and includes opinions and supporting examples. Assesses how healthy cities relate to environmental health, citing specific examples from research. Analyzes obstacles for a city in becoming a healthy city, and suggests solutions. Evaluates the financial issues involved in creating a healthy city, supported by examples from reputable sources. Evaluates how environmental health is an individual concern. Evaluates how environmental health is a global concern. Describes how a city could become prepared for disasters, and discusses the long-term impact of its level of preparedness. Assesses and evaluates benefits of developing a healthy city to one’s self, family, and community.