Municipality Health Promotion – a consensus-process

Health Equity is influenced by the local social and physical environment we are living in. Municipalities all over Europe have a key role in shaping and addressing these living conditions. Current action in this field is fragmented, varies highly within countries and strongly depends on political leadership. This European policy-level intervention in the frame of the Joint Action Health Equity Europe aims at supporting a systematic and structured basis in order to support municipalities to take action for healthy living environments. In a consensus-process, 17 national and regional Public Health authorities and…