Journal of Guangzhou University(Natural Science Edition). 2023, 22(6): 9-8.
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Attention to healthy urban development has risen to a national strategic priority in recent years. Scientific assessment of the health index and spatial characteristics of cities is the basis for providing guidance for urban and rural planning and construction. At this stage, the theoretical development of urban health evaluation did not start long ago, and the existing research focuses on single dimension evaluation of urban health, but lacks comprehensive multi dimension integration judgment,and a unified systematic evaluation system has not yet been formed. In addition, existing studies have considered the health characteristics of cities as independent individuals and neglected the assessment of intercity health correlation, which is not conducive to the improvement of the health level of cities through the mutual learning effect. Therefore, this study attempts to optimize the comprehensive evaluation system of Chinas urban health development index from five dimensions, and takes the Pearl River Delta ( PRD) region as an example, combining a complex network approach to scientifically assess the health level and group characteristics of each spatial unit and its neighboring units. The study found that the first tier of the PRD with the highest healthy city index is Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the second tier is Dongguan, Foshan and Zhuhai, and the third tier is Zhongshan and the peripheral cities of Huizhou, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing, which are spatially heterogeneous in terms of different dimensions of their health indicators; meanwhile, the PRD spatial network of health can be classified into five major groups, namely, single type health, dual type health and mixed type health, which pro vides ideas for scientifically identifying the shortcomings of health development in each region and seeks to find more efficient and lower cost benchmarking and learning regions. This study aims to pro vide a systematic research framework for the evaluation of Chinas urban health index, and to provide a reference for the formulation of targeted policies for urban health development.