Healthy nature healthy people: 'contact with nature' as an upstream health promotion intervention for populations.

By C. Maller, M. Townsend, A. Pryor, Peter Brown, L. S. St Leger. Health Promotion International, 2006

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Plant Science

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People and green spaces: promoting public health and mental well‐being through ecotherapy (2007, background): “There is already considerable anecdotal, theoretical and empirical evidence that contact with nature is a real asset in the promotion of health for people (see table 1 (Maller et al, 2006)).”
An Investigation of Passengers’ Psychological Benefits from Green Brands in an Environmentally Friendly Airline Context: The Moderating Role of Gender (2017, background): “People want to be with nature in order to recover their physical and mental health [45,46] because natural experiences aid in enhancing emotional well-being and a positive mood [47,48] and also decrease mental fatigue and the tendency for aggressive behavior [48,49].”
Connectedness as a Core Conservation Concern: An Interdisciplinary Review of Theory and a Call for Practice (2014, background): “Numerous studies and reviews illustrate that contact with natural environments is beneficial as measured by multiple variables pertaining to physiological, emotional, mental, social and spiritual health, and well-being [3, 27, 48, 59, 88, 102, 108, 111, 113, 121, 186, 187].”
The NR-6: a new brief measure of nature relatedness (2013, background): “ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE published: 01 November 2013 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00813 The NR-6: a new brief measure of nature relatedness”
A systematic review of evidence for the added benefits to health of exposure to natural environments (2010, background): “These initiatives may be a means to simultaneously promote public health, tackle health inequalities and conserve biodiversity [1-3].”
What are the Benefits of Interacting with Nature? (2013, background): “, [18–20], or have covered the benefits arising from a particular type of interaction, e.”
Cross-National Variation in Individual Life Satisfaction: Effects of National Wealth, Human Development, and Environmental Conditions (2008, background): “This assumption has been increasingly questioned (Waring 1988; Max-Neef 1995; Sen 1999; Lawn 2003 ), and other development indicators measuring factors ranging from political freedom to gender equality to environmental sustainability have been offered as alternatives.”
Examining Group Walks in Nature and Multiple Aspects of Well-Being: A Large-Scale Study (2014, positive): “Undertaking physical activity in nature is a novel approach for the prevention of these critical health issues (Bird, 2007; Frumkin & Fox, 2011; Maller et al., 2005).”
Psychology and Global Climate Change: Addressing a Multi-faceted Phenomenon and Set of Challenges A Report by the American Psychological Association's Task Force on the Interface Between Psychology and Global Climate Change Members (2009, background): “…body of research suggests that nearby nature has positive effects on physical and mental health (De Vries et al., 2003; Maas et al., 2006; Takano et al., 2002) as well as on social functioning (Kuo & Sullivan, 2001; Kuo et al., 1998; Krenichyn, 2004; Maller et al., 2006; Shinew et al., 2004).”