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Résumé :
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For the past three decades, the European Healthy Cities network has worked along principles of intersectoral action, policy and governance. This article presents an overview of the evidence, which is in turn grounded and contextualized in a brief review of intersectoral action and its relevant related concepts. The evaluations of the five five-year phases of European Healthy Cities to date show that local governments are increasingly and effectively managing intersectoral action, intersectoral policy and intersectoral governance. By reference to the insights provided by research into knowledge networks and the ways novel policies spread, i.e. “policy diffusion”, the article concludes that Healthy Cities are likely to influence other local governments as well as higher levels of government to adopt effective intersectoral work.
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