Status: Project Completion

Berlin as a Health Care Centre

Berlin’s project provides an exchange of experience with other cities on the subjects of health care in metropolitan areas and social responsibility, a physicians’ exchange and partnerships in the area of public health management, also involving the Business Coalition against AIDS.

Project Status

Evaluation

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Project Summary

To improve metropolitan health management and heath care services in Berlin.

Themes

, Community Sustainability
Global Compact Principle

Human Rights (What is this?)
Issues Project is Seeking to Address
  1. Children’s psych health
  2. HIV/Aids treatment and prevention
  3. Demographic challenges in urban health care
  4. Specific health needs for migrants in urban contexts
Planned Actions
  1. To carry out a private-public partnership between Berlin Town Hall, Vivantes and Charite (who between them are responsible for almost all of Berlin’s clinics and hospitals).
  2. Elaborate and distribute flyers on best practices for improving metropolitan health to German Global Compact members, partner cities inside and outside Germany, and member cities of the UNGC Cities Programme.
Desired Outcomes
  1. To improve health issues in metropolitan areas
  2. To foster an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and experiences
  3. To influence long-term cross sectoral approaches to urban health
Related Documents
Timeline

2006 Project Design
2007 Implementation
2008 Expected evaluation

Project News and Updates

Active Health

17 February 2008

Berlin’s “Active Health” project - taking their pilot project further. Read the Active Health / Global Compact announcement (PDF) here.

Urban Medicine and Metropolitan Health Conference

19 October 2007

Metropolitan Health (PDF)
Urban Medicine Conference (PDF)