There are the winning conditions that a city can institute to help his/her/its citizens to adopt better habits of life.
It is the opinion of Marie-Eve Morin1, of the Direction of the public health (DSP) of the region of the Laurentians, that estimates that different types of actions must be led of forehead to get better results.
In a very concrete way, the cities can put the public markets of fruits and vegetables, to secure the parks, in place or create the infrastructures that will encourage the active displacements. like sidewalks or tracks syllables.
" For example, they can create a "trail of the 4 000 steps", submits Mrs. Morin. It is an urban course that offers different points of interest. boutiques, library, benches to take a rest and other. who incite people to walk. "
The townships can also adopt the social and political measures, that it is while applying the Law on tobacco in the municipal establishments, or while instituting food policies in their local or during the events that they organize.
The elected can also modify the plans of urbanism in order to offer a better combination of residential, commercial and institutional buildings encouraging the physical activity or a better food offer.
" On a local scale, it is necessary that the townships make the household of their urbanism plan, to indicate urbanite Sophie Paquin2. Currently, several townships have a combination. or "co-education" – that doesn’t encourage the adoption of healthy habits of life by the population. "
Finally, to encourage the health of their citizens, the cities can adopt economic measures: of the policies of pricing for the families and the underprivileged surroundings, or of the infrastructures securities and free or to moderate price.
" One doesn’t speak of bungee or park of skateboards, picture Marie-Eve Morin, but well of simple actions that can achieve themselves to a reasonable cost. "
A success in the MRC of Argent
Such propositions of actions have been tested in the setting of a pilot project presented to the elected of the regional township of the county (MRC) of Argenteuil3, where the diabetes and the cardiovascular illnesses touch a good proportion of the population.
The objective: to make the program 0-5-303, that sums up thus adhere the nine townships of the MRC: " zero" tobacco addiction, the consumption of at least five fruits and vegetables per day and 30 minutes of daily exercise.
The steps done by Marie-Eve Morins and different intervening parties of health by the elected municipal carried fruit. To proof, in May 2007, it is in big pumps that the MRC of Argent threw its plan of action in order to incite his/her/its citizens to adhere to the program 0-5-30.
Among the elements that contributed to this success, the enrollment of a person dedicated to the implantation of the program is probably the most important, according to Mrs. Morin. The financial help obtaining coming from the concerned townships, but also of the private sector and associations carminatives (as the Clubs of the Lions or Kiwanis), as greatly participated in this success.
" But the real success especially holds in the fact that one returned the health as important as the road network in this MRC, to conclude Marie-Eve Morin.
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