The role of smart cities in promoting health
دور المدن الذكية في تعزيز الصحة
Abstract
We aim through this study to identify the role of smart cities in promoting health through a descriptive study, by studying the relationship between smart cities and their promotion of health within the urban environment, using smart city technologies to create more efficient healthcare systems, and identifying smart digital solutions to monitor epidemics and diseases, and environmental health, to enhance the health of its residents. To achieve the objectives of the study and answer its questions, and based on the nature of the study topic, we relied on a set of sources to collect scientific material. Our study reached a number of results, the most important of which are: Smart cities contribute to promoting health by providing innovative and advanced health services, using technologies that contribute to creating more efficient health care systems. And including digital technology in the solutions provided for health care. The study recommended the importance of adopting smart cities, providing smart infrastructure in cities, and providing advanced technological infrastructure that facilitates access to health services faster and more efficiently.
References
Caragliu, A., Del Bo, C., & Nijkamp, p. (2011), ''Smart Cities in Europe'' Journal of Urban Technology 18 (2).
Townsend, A. M. (2013). Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, the Quest for a New Utopia. New York, W.W. NORTON & COMPANY.
United Nation. (2015). Sustainable Development Goal 11, Make Cities human settlements, ed Inclusive Save resilient sustainable, New York.
Wang, T. (2003). "Interdisciplinary Urban GIS for Smart Cities: advancements and opportunities." Geo-Spatial Information Sciences 16(1): 25-34.
- Arabic references in English:
Ibtikar. (2022). Seoul Deploys Smart City Services to Enhance Safety and Well-being. Mohammed Bin Rashid Center for Government Innovation.
Abou El-Ela, H. S. A. A. (2019). Network Analysis as a GIS Application for Emergency Services : Toward Transforming Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah into a Smart City. The 13th GIS Symposium in Saudi Arabia, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University - Dammam.
Abu-Ghazaleh, T. (2021). The Inevitable Digital Future : The World of Smart Cities. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Translation, Distribution, and Publishing, Jordan.
United Nations. (2018). Smart Management of Solid Waste in Cities. UN-Habitat.
United Nations. (2021). Sustainable Smart Cities and Digital Smart Solutions to Enhance Urban Resilience in the Arab Region : Lessons from the Pandemic. Beirut.
Ben Ghodban, F. (2020). Healthy Cities in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Algeria : Roles and Objectives - A Case Study of El Khroub City. Journal of Geographic and Cartographic Research, 17(29), 65-91.
Hassan, H. H. (2019). Smart Cities and Their Role in Solving Community Service Problems : Baghdad as a Model. Medad Al-Adab Journal, 635-664.
Hfaff, S. (2022). Smart Cities Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of Transformation Necessities. Al-Naqid Journal for Political Studies, 6(1), 233-254.
Dweidi, K. H., Belkadi, T. L., & Belkadi, B. (2019). The Ability of Smart Cities to Face the COVID-19 Crisis. Special Issue from the 1st International Virtual Conference on Digital Transformation in the Knowledge Era, Al-Zawiya University, Libya.
Abdullah, M. (2018). The Concept of a Sustainable Smart City and the Possibility of Its Application to Wad Medani City in Sudan. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, University of Science and Technology, Sudan.
Matar, N. M. S. (2023). Towards a Framework for Transforming into Resilient Smart Cities on the Path to Recovery from COVID-19. Journal of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities, 39-67.
World Health Organization. (2020). The Power of Cities : Tackling Noncommunicable Diseases and Road Traffic Injuries. Geneva : WHO. Available at : https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/329429/9789240006119-ara.pdf
World Health Organization. (2024). Digital Health Promotion Can Help Avoid Millions of Deaths from Noncommunicable Diseases. New York. Available at: https://2u.pw/HXRXUcj9
Nizar, S., & Amrouche, C. (2019). The Environmental Role of Smart Cities in Achieving Sustainable Development. Journal of Management, Development, and Research Studies, 8(1).
Naeem, W. (2024). "Smart Containers » : A Sustainable, Eco-Friendly Project. Al Bayan Newspaper, UAE. Available at : https://www.albayan.ae/uae/news/2024-04-25-1.4861223
Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA). (2024). Use Cases of Artificial Intelligence in the Municipal Sector. Saudi Arabia.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
