“健康城市”创造一个支持性的健康环境，提供基本的卫生设施和个人的卫生需求，提供获得医疗卫生服务的机会，提升居民的生活质量 。“ 健康城市”是一个不断创造和改善其物质建成环境与社会环境，拓展社区资源，从而使居民能够相互支持，实现生活的多种需求并发展达到他们最大潜能的城市。“健康城市”以健康的环境、经济和社会为支撑，保障和提升个体和群体健康 。
"Healthy cities" create a supportive health environment, provide basic sanitation and individual health needs, provide access to health services, and improve the quality of life of residents. A "healthy city" is a city that continuously creates and improves its physical built environment and social environment and expands community resources so that residents can support each other, fulfill the multiple needs of life and develop to their maximum potential. The "Healthy City" is supported by a healthy environment, economy and society to ensure and promote the health of individuals and groups.
健康城市在1981年开始由世界卫生组织开始推动，由世界卫生组织所显示的资料指出，超过百万人口的城市有112个，最迟至2025年，全世界逾60%人口会居住在城市中。 工业化社会所带来的问题，包括卫生、污染、环保、生态等问题，将愈来愈严重，世界卫生组织开始推动健康城市概念，期望人口密集的城市不只是生活紧张、环境污染等负面影响，也应该让城市是健康、乐活的。
Healthy cities were promoted by the World Health Organization in 1981. According to the data shown by the World Health Organization, there are 112 cities with more than one million people, and by 2025 at the latest, more than 60% of the world's population will live in cities. The problems brought by the industrialized society, including health, pollution, environmental protection, ecology and other problems, will become more and more serious, the World Health Organization began to promote the concept of healthy cities, hoping that the densely populated city is not only the negative impact of living tension, environmental pollution, but also should make the city healthy and happy.
世界卫生组织为健康城市所下的定义，认为健康城市是定义一个过程，而不是一个结果：
健康城市不只是实现了特定的健康状况。
健康城市是对健康意识的持续改善，基于此，任何城市无论其目前的主客观条件，都可以是个“健康城市”。
“健康城市”所需要的是实践此一目标的进程与结构。
“健康城市”能不断改善自然及社会环境，扩大社会资源，使居民能够在生活中发展其最大潜力。
The World Health Organization defines a healthy city as a process rather than a result:
Healthy cities are not just about achieving specific health conditions.
A healthy city is a continuous improvement of health awareness, based on which any city can be a "healthy city" regardless of its current subjective and objective conditions.
What is needed for a "healthy city" is a process and structure to achieve this goal.
"Healthy cities" can continuously improve the natural and social environment, expand social resources, and enable residents to develop their maximum potential in life.
