From converting green spaces into tobacco-free areas to cutting out ultra-processed foods and sugary drinks from school lunches and promoting air quality, three cities on Thursday won awards for being some of the healthiest urban places on the planet.

Córdoba in Argentina, Fortaleza in Brazil and Manchester in the UK accepted prizes in Paris for their public health achievements, at the Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit, co-hosted by the UN World Health Organization (WHO), Bloomberg Philanthropies and Vital Strategies.

The city of Córdoba picked up an accolade for replacing sugary drinks with water, helping to lower obesity rates.

"We're seeing a lot of progress in local leadership and mayors from across the world taking on the fight and trying to lower rates of the world's biggest killers, heart disease, diabetes, cancers and respiratory diseases," said Jaimie Guerra, Communications Officer at WHO.

Three of world’s healthiest cities win awards for smoke-free parks, air quality, school lunches

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Three of world’s healthiest cities win awards for smoke-free parks, air quality, school lunches

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