Bridging smart technologies and healthy cities: A scoping review using WHO's 6P framework

IF 10.5 1区工程技术 Q1 CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

Sustainable Cities and Society Pub Date : 2024-10-11 DOI:10.1016/j.scs.2024.105888

Hye Su Jeong , Haejoo Chung

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Abstract

Urbanization's public health challenges have led to smart city initiatives, but the integration of these technologies within the World Health Organization's (WHO) Healthy Cities framework remains underexplored. This study maps the smart technologies employed for urban health and examines their alignment with the six components of the WHO framework: People, Place, Participation, Prosperity, Peace, and Planet. A scoping review of literature published between 2000 and 2024 was performed by searching five databases. Studies were included if they described smart technologies used for urban health and were published in English and peer-reviewed journal articles or conference papers. An analysis of 41 studies revealed that sensors, web applications, and machine learning were the most used technologies. Place-related technologies were predominant, focusing on environmental monitoring and infrastructure management. While the other themes were well represented, there was a notable absence of People and Participation-related technologies. This study provides comprehensive mapping of smart technologies within the WHO's framework, contributing to the goal of sustainable and healthy cities. Findings highlight the significant gap in human-centric and participatory approaches, emphasizing the need for more inclusive and equitable cities. Future research and policy should prioritize integrating underrepresented themes to better align with the WHO's Healthy Cities vision.

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连接智能技术与健康城市：利用世界卫生组织的 6P 框架进行范围界定审查

城市化带来的公共卫生挑战催生了智慧城市倡议，但将这些技术纳入世界卫生组织（WHO）健康城市框架的研究仍显不足。本研究绘制了用于城市健康的智能技术地图，并研究了这些技术与世界卫生组织框架六个组成部分的一致性：人、地点、参与、繁荣、和平和地球。通过搜索五个数据库，对 2000 年至 2024 年间发表的文献进行了范围审查。如果研究描述了用于城市健康的智能技术，并以英文和同行评审期刊论文或会议论文的形式发表，则被纳入其中。对 41 项研究的分析表明，传感器、网络应用程序和机器学习是使用最多的技术。与地点相关的技术占主导地位，主要集中在环境监测和基础设施管理方面。虽然其他主题也得到了很好的体现，但与 "人 "和 "参与 "相关的技术却明显缺乏。这项研究提供了世界卫生组织框架内智能技术的全面图谱，有助于实现可持续健康城市的目标。研究结果凸显了在以人为本和参与式方法方面存在的巨大差距，强调了建设更具包容性和公平性城市的必要性。未来的研究和政策应优先考虑整合代表性不足的主题，以更好地与世卫组织的健康城市愿景保持一致。

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Sustainable Cities and Society Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

CiteScore

22.00

自引率

13.70%

发文量

810

审稿时长

27 days

期刊介绍： Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal that focuses on fundamental and applied research to promote environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. The journal welcomes cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research in various areas, including: 1. Smart cities and resilient environments; 2. Alternative/clean energy sources, energy distribution, distributed energy generation, and energy demand reduction/management; 3. Monitoring and improving air quality in built environment and cities (e.g., healthy built environment and air quality management); 4. Energy efficient, low/zero carbon, and green buildings/communities; 5. Climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban environments; 6. Green infrastructure and BMPs; 7. Environmental Footprint accounting and management; 8. Urban agriculture and forestry; 9. ICT, smart grid and intelligent infrastructure; 10. Urban design/planning, regulations, legislation, certification, economics, and policy; 11. Social aspects, impacts and resiliency of cities; 12. Behavior monitoring, analysis and change within urban communities; 13. Health monitoring and improvement; 14. Nexus issues related to sustainable cities and societies; 15. Smart city governance; 16. Decision Support Systems for trade-off and uncertainty analysis for improved management of cities and society; 17. Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence applications and case studies; 18. Critical infrastructure protection, including security, privacy, forensics, and reliability issues of cyber-physical systems. 19. Water footprint reduction and urban water distribution, harvesting, treatment, reuse and management; 20. Waste reduction and recycling; 21. Wastewater collection, treatment and recycling; 22. Smart, clean and healthy transportation systems and infrastructure;