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This explores the concept of ‘mental health-sensitive' open space design in urban environments, focusing on Urban Green Blue Infrastructure. It highlights how this design can support mental health,…
Published date
November 2019
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by
Maria Beatrice Andreucci, Alessio Russo, and Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo
Thedegroeneic.nl website is in Dutch forThe Green ICU partnership in the Netherlands, but Chrome has a translation extension to read the content in English.
This WHO report summarizes the available evidence of beneficial effects of urban green spaces, such as improved mental health, reduced cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, obesity and risk of type…
The first Green Nephrology Summit took place on 25 February 2009. It was a day of discussion, learning and planning, which explored a new vision for kidney care in the future, and brought together a…
The Green Nephrology Summit 2012 participants agreed to issue a position statement about the urgency of sustainable healthcare, with a challenge to policy makers to remove financial/commissioning…
Please see the new and improved Green Impact for Healthcare (GIFH) Toolkit. This toolkit provides detailed guidance on specific practical actions that GP Practices can take towards environmentally…
The occupational therapist at Clare Ward in South London restarted a weekly walking group to nearby parks and green spaces. A previous walking group had been put on pause after the volunteer running…
Staff from Carbis and Perran Wards at Longreach House in Cornwall assessed a green walking group activity for inpatient adults. Patients were assessed for fitness for this activity; walks with trained…
Podiatrists have a shared responsibility to work and live as ‘green’ as possible, and to share this message
with patients. Reducing waste, physically and in the form of unnecessary treatment, and…
