The government of Taipei city promotes the program of healthy city in Taipei and stipulates Overall Objectives and Secondary Objectives which serve as the guideline for formulating Implementation Strategies and Principles of Development expatiated as follows: Primarily guided by five guidelines of actions in the Ottawa Charter, overall objectives aim at thoroughly implementing five guidelines of actions, with the principle that promoting the overall health of the local region, to comprehensively promote environmental health and cooperation among publics as so to build a healthy city. Overall objectives of the city are: (1) to reduce unequal health; (2) to create supportive physical and social environment; (3) to advocate a health service system based on communities. Secondary objectives refer to the facts each group achieves objectives of healthy city where it belongs to. The municipal government of Taipei clearly realized that the basic spirit of public health should be health promotion and disease prevention rather than treatment. Therefore, instead of the personal intervention, we resort to the intervention of municipal government power and social power to improve the community health, reduce inequality regarding social resources and health, respect ecology and provide the next generation with a clean, green, quiet, healthy, safe, convenient and comfortable environment that support life of publics. Consequently, take the Department of Health as an example, our five objectives are: (1) to prolong the life expectancy of Taipei publics; (2) to create healthy environment and protect people’s health from being harmed; (3) to develop personal health and promote personal knowledge-ability for the purpose of health promotion; (4) to plan the lifetime health of publics and offer information related to health; (5) to advocate the concept of healthy cities in every aspect of city life and every department of the government to turn it into a trend and internalize it the concept. According to ideas of Taipei healthy city plan, it is expected that principles of health could be practically implemented in grassroots. The plan aims at promoting the physical, mental and social health of people in virtue of joint cooperation between the local government and volunteers. Strategies of Taipei healthy city are leaded by five guidelines of actions of 1986 Ottawa Charter: As a city with pluralistic development, Taipei is able to absorb and learn different and new concepts during the process of implementing the healthy city plan. It is capable to continuously adjust progressive paces of the plan among changes and act according to different time, places and situations without alternating the general orientation. Following are principles of development for Taipei when carrying out the healthy city plan:1. Overall Objectives
2. Secondary Objectives
Implementation Strategies and Principles of Development
1. Implementation Strategies
2. Principles of Development