Table 3.

Recommended indicators for assessing the implementation of the Healthy Cities approach.

Proposed healthy city indicator	Addressed issues in the Action Plan for Healthy China (2019-2030)	Addressed strategy approaches in the essential domains of actions for Healthy Cities	Why it is important
1. Percentage of health programs initiated by entities outside of the government sectors	Public participation	Forging local partnerships for health	Civic engagement is a core process for urban health governance
2. Number of healthy policies that go through the public consulting processes
3. City health profile report, with information on health inequalities among different city zones and population groups, updated regularly	Make action plans to tackle the main health issues in the local area	Completing a city health profile; Introducing an integrated city health development plan Explaining the meaning and the root causes of inequalities and their negative impact on society Measuring inequalities Developing a step-by-step action plan for the city	Provides baseline information to develop a city health and equity improvement plan
4. Locally specific city health development plan, updated regularly			Strategic documents giving direction to municipalities and partner agencies
5. Local law or regulation on enacting HIA in the policymaking process	Health-in-all policies and health impact assessment	Health in all local policies Developing mechanisms and capacity for integrating health and equity considerations within local policymaking Ensuring policy coherence that is beneficial to health and promoting related synergies Increasing capacity for health impact assessment	Important measures to enforce Health-in-all policies
6. Percentage of municipal policies and plans that HIA have been applied
7. Percentage of government employees trained for conducting HIA
8. Number of joint agreements across sectors and with communities
9. Memberships of domestic or international healthy city networks		City diplomacy	Exchange ideas with other cities
10. Inclusion of health determinants and potential health impacts in the city master plan	Healthy urban planning and merge health in the whole life cycle of urban development	Investing in healthy urban planning and design, closely working with urban planners and architects	Address upstream health determinants in the built environment