Regulation of the immune system by biodiversity from the natural environment: An ecosystem service essential to health

By G. Rook. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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Green spaces and cognitive development in primary schoolchildren (2015, background): “Therefore, the ability of outdoor surrounding greenness to enhance immunoregulation-inducing microbial input from the environment (10) could have been another mechanism underlying our observed association between greenness exposure and cognitive development.”
The health benefits of the great outdoors: A systematic review and meta-analysis of greenspace exposure and health outcomes (2018, background): “…hypothesis, which proposes that use of greenspace increases exposure to a range of microorganisms, including bacteria, protozoa and helminths, which are abundant in nature and may be important for the development of the immune system and for regulation of inflammatory responses (Rook, 2013).”
Residential green spaces and mortality: A systematic review. (2016, background): “, 2015; Wolf and Robbins, 2015), b) the healthy environment associated with green spaces (increasing biodiversity which influences immune response and less temperature, air pollutants and noise have been observed in greener areas) (Gidlöf-Gunnarsson and Öhrström, 2007; Selander et al., 2009; Basagañ”
Urban natural environments as nature-based solutions for improved public health - A systematic review of reviews. (2017, background): “Within this context, sometimes the so called “Old Friends hypothesis” is considered, where a dysfunctional immune system is suggested to be due to minimised contact with biodiverse natural environments and consequentially a non-sustained human microbiome (Rook, 2013; Rook et al., 2014).”
Nature Contact and Human Health: A Research Agenda (2017, background): “The level of biodiversity (Dallimer et al. 2012; Lovell et al. 2014; Rook 2013)?”
Exploring connections among nature, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health and well-being: Opportunities to enhance health and biodiversity conservation ☆ (2015, methodology): “In addition, many of these studies exhibited one or more significant weaknesses (Rook, 2013).”