City health promotion planning as a vehicle towards opening the ‘windows of opportunities’ – an example of the City of Székesfehérvár, Hungary

Abstract

The City Health Promotion Plan of Székesfehérvár is one of the few city health promotion plans in Hungary, which has been implemented and evaluated. Owing to the activities related to the implementation of the plan, besides other results, a multisectoral steering committee has been established, the number of community-based local health promotion programmes hasincreased and the proportion of those adults who do sports regularly has risen. Based on the example of Székesfehérvár, our recent study explains how the health promotion plan was able to open the ‘window of opportunities’ to ensure political support for community-based health promotion initiatives.