Public involvement has become a key concept in conservation management worldwide. This paper provides an overview of the situation in four countries where national parks have been established for over a century, and where their creation often involved clearing the land of earlier indigenous settlements. Since the 1970s, public participation has become common practice in park management, even th...

Abstract Background & Aims: Toxocariasis or visceral larva migrans syndrome is a disease that appears by attack of extra intestinal animal nematode larvae of Toxocara canis to the human tissues. The present study was performed to evaluate the frequency of Toxocara eggs in public parks of Shiraz /Iran. Methods: A total of 20 parks from different regions of shiraz city were selected, and from dif...

Cathy Grutzmacher, SunYoung Park, Yun Zhao, Margaret E. Morrison, Nader Sheibani, and Christine M. Sorenson Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin; Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin; and Department of Pharmacology, University of Wisc...

OBJECTIVE To identify and compare the immature Culicidae population and their predators in different breeding places in a public city park. METHODS The study was carried out in an ecological park situated in the outskirts of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Four Culicidae breeding places were selected: one semi-permanent, two permanent and one polluted brook. Throughout a year, at monthly inter...

1 Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. 2 Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. 3 Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC. 4 Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. 5 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Bost...

Sustainable development efforts in urban areas often focus on understanding and managing factors that influence all aspects of health and wellbeing. Research has shown that public parks and green space provide a variety of physical, psychological, and social benefits to urban residents, but few studies have examined the influence of parks on comprehensive measures of subjective wellbeing at the...

An equity-mapping analysis of access to park space enjoyed by children and youth in Los Angeles (LA), and by residents according to their race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status finds that low-income and concentrated poverty areas as well as neighborhoods dominated by Latinos, African Americans, and Asian-Pacific Islanders, have dramatically lower levels of access to park resources than White...

Cryptosporidium spp., Giardia duodenalis, and Enterocytozoon bieneusi were detected in 45, 35, and 116 of 411 free-range rhesus monkeys, respectively, in a popular public park in the People's Republic of China. Most genotypes and subtypes detected were anthroponotic, indicating these animals might be reservoirs for human cryptosporidiosis, giardiasis, and microsporidiosis.

Proximity to a park does not necessarily imply access or use, and the social environment may positively or negatively influence the positive intentions of the built environment. To investigate parks, park use and physical activity, and their associations with exposure to community violence, we interviewed residents (n = 354) of a densely populated urban community. Our findings indicate that pro...