Healthy nature healthy people: ‘contact with nature’ as an upstream health promotion intervention for populations
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Healthy nature healthy people: 'contact with nature' as an upstream health promotion intervention for populations.
Whilst urban-dwelling individuals who seek out parks and gardens appear to intuitively understand the personal health and well-being benefits arising from 'contact with nature', public health strategies are yet to maximize the untapped resource nature provides, including the benefits of nature contact as an upstream health promotion intervention for populations. This paper presents a summary of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Promotion International
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1460-2245,0957-4824
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dai032