[The Healthy Cities Project of the World Health Organization and the approach to its realization]

Our health prophylactic badly needs approaches and means for the realization of healthy policy, responding to the changing situations of health risk and shared responsibilities concerning the environment and man's health. The project "Healthy Cities" is a means of applying the already accepted in this country principles of the program "Health for all by the year 2000" on local standard. The city is accepted as a complex organism, which lives, develops and constantly changes. Healthy is this city which improves its environment and manages its resources in such a way as to ensure: high level of the health status; efficient health services; physical environment of high quality, including the living environment; steady ecosystems; society, supporting the health policy; offering good living conditions to every inhabitant; intensive social co-operation; steadfast economics; intensive cultural life and maintaining the connections with the cultural-historic and natural heritage; model and approach to the town planning, corresponding to the above mentioned nine parameters. The requirements of the project, related to the WHO priority strategies are given. A key mechanism in the realization of the health policy has to be the evaluation of the health and demographic state and its periodic reporting to the town authorities by means of suitable health criteria and indicators for the qualities of the environment. The analyses of the health state and the situation of the rural environment have to serve the Governmental decisions for the towns development. Conditions for participating in the project, the international initiatives and national priorities are presented.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)