Evaluation Quality of Life Kerman city with the healthy city approach from the perspective of residents

Subject Areas : Regional Planning

Mohammad rahimi ¹ , Fatemeh pazand ²

1 - استادیار گروه جغرافیا و برنامه‌ریزی شهری، دانشگاه شهید باهنر، کرمان، ایران
2 - کارشناس ارشد شهرسازی، واحد کرمان، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، کرمان، ایران

Received: 2015-08-07 Accepted : 2017-04-20 Published : 2017-03-21

Keywords: Sustainable Development, Kerman, Healthy city, Indicators of healthy City,

Abstract :

    With the development of urbanization in developing countries, urbanization problems such as environmental degradation, pollution, lack of housing, quality of life, etc., that conditions for public health as the most important indicator of the quality of urban life has significantly been decreased. In order to achieve the goals of sustainable urban development, urban planners have raised healthy city approach in order to provide a favorable condition of life for urban residents. This descriptive-analytical study evaluated indicators of a healthy city in the Kerman city. At first, indicators of healthy city presented by the World Health Organization and the experience of several countries and also similar researches in Iran was extracted via library studies then a questionnaire was distributed among residents and experts organizations related to Kerman. The population was estimated 384 people via Cochran formula. Then, SPSS software to analyze t-test was used. The results show that Kerman from the residents and expert’s perspective from health aspect with a significant level (0.037), Public health with significance level (0.001), comfort (0.01) and the beauty of city (0.001) and the security aspect with significant level (0.31) is close to standards of healthy city. Finally, according to the findings and results of the research, guidelines and recommendations have been offered to achieve a healthy urban in Kerman.

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