Strategies for the development of urban planning in healthy cities: epidemiology and light technologies

The built, social and economic environment affects health and local development, many relationships are explored in several lines of research, such as, for example, mental health issues, especially depression, anxiety, suicide, were dependent on social isolation, lack of areas green and coexistence. Through data from epidemiological studies, it is possible to outline the best possibilities for the development of cities and through the implementation of interventions using light technologies in projects aimed at health promotion. Currently the availability of information and technological tools can be used as allies in the search for urban planning that favors the development of healthy cities, if organized and available to the population and managers through platforms and instruments accessible and easy to handle and understand data and health information for the design and implementation of urban public policies. This article seeks to reflect on which available health indicators should be considered in urban planning for the development of healthy cities, and to describe which light technologies can be implemented as public policies to improve these indicators, indicating instruments for public management that facilitate decision making. . One of the new concepts of a healthy city refers to the main conditions: political will, interdisciplinary knowledge, joint practical action and collective development, so even in the 21st century there are several issues to be faced and resolved. Epidemiology can be applied as evidence for public policies and urban interventions aimed at quality of life and well-being and provide a basis for investments in areas of coexistence, squares and afforestation, especially in the unassisted and most socially vulnerable areas, being possible to infer which preventive measures based on data available in systems such as DATASUS, SEADE Foundation, IBGE and other public databases, and through a purposeful epidemiology can be used as economic factors for the public health system and contribute to equity and social well-being , identifying which epidemiological data can support urban planning for healthy cities and which light technologies that are implemented through intersectoral public policies of urban planning prevent diseases and promote quality of life, as well as happiness data. The main objective of this research would be to systematize which epidemiological models, light technologies and urban planning can be used in the process of building a healthy city. Bibliographic studies and data collection will be used in the referred databases of a given region and an attempt will be made to converge the most appropriate data for healthy living according to the World Health Organization (WHO). It is hoped that the data will be made available in tables and graphs that can guide public management in cities in the direction of healthy urban planning.

Members: Ana Maria Girotti Sperandio - Coordinator / Lauro Luiz Francisco Filho - Member / Rodrigo Brandini Bloes - Member / Pamela Shue Lang Lin - Member / Bárbara Bonatto - Member.