Person Environment Relationships to Health and Wellbeing

Erratum to: Social relationships, mental health and wellbeing in physical disability: a systematic review

Urban green spaces assessment approach to health, safety and environment

The city is alive with dynamic systems, where parks and urban green spaces have high strategic importance which help to improve living conditions. Urban parks are used as visual landscape with so many benefits such as reducing stress, reducing air pollution and producing oxygen, creating opportunities for people to participate in physical activities, optimal environment for children and decreas...

Work, Health and Wellbeing

Received: October 5, 2012 Accepted: October 9, 2012 Available online: November 30, 2012 Correspondence to: Dame Carol BLACK Health Improvement & Protection Directorate, Department of Health 704 Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8UG, UK E-mail: [email protected] During the past decade we have become more aware of important relationships between health and work. There is ...

Smart Health and Wellbeing

which estimated that preventable medical errors lead to as many as 98,000 deaths per year in the US.2 Gerard Anderson and Patricia Markovich also reported that the US spends $1.7 trillion annually (16 percent of GDP) on healthcare, yet produces signi! cantly lower health outcomes than many other developed countries.3 Many new government initiatives to improve this situation have been started re...

Health, wellbeing and progress.

Is it enough to say that, because we are growing richer and living longer, life is getting better? Wealth and health are the main indicators by which we judge progress, and by these measures Australia, and most of the rest of the world, are making good progress. So is all well and good? Not exactly. There is growing evidence that standard of living is not the same as quality of life, and that h...