Healing Through Nature: How Green Spaces Improve Health

Urban green and blue spaces (UGS) are hugely beneficial to human and planetary health. With the environments in which we live, and the rapid growth of urbanization, we as healthcare professionals have an advocacy role in promoting green space. 
Join me as I chat with Sarah and Dan from the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. We talk about the importance of green space for health, some of the amazing ongoing examples of promotion in health care and the offerings on the table. This includes NHS Forest, being led by Dan and Sarah, which promises to give trees to any GP practice!!

Greener Practice – Greener Practice – UK's primary care sustainability network

Green Exercise | University of Essex

Tree Equity Score (free, online, mapping tool): https://uk.treeequityscore.org

NHS Forest website: https://nhsforest.org/

Natural England review of reviews: https://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/5939107801595904

Food growing toolkit, here's the link to it in the networks: https://networks.sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/resources/food-growing-toolkit-healthcare-settings

Recent WHO Publication:
Urban Green Space for Health: a review of the evidence Urban green spaces and health (who.int)

Recent Paper published in Lifestyle Medicine:
Urban green and blue spaces for influencing physical activity in the United Kingdom: A narrative review of the policy and evidence - Leese - 2024 - Lifestyle Medicine

Produced using funding from NHS Tayside Educational Fund and the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine.

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