Join one thousand delegates at the inaugural International Healthy Parks Healthy People Congress 2010. This ground breaking event will explore the many ways nature and parks significantly contribute to our health and wellbeing.
Q & A with Dr Aaron Bernstein
Read our Q & A with Congress keynote Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH. He is on faculty at Harvard Medical School and the Center for Health and the Global Environment. Along with Nobel Peace Prize recipient Eric Chivian, he co-authored 'Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity'.
He discusses how to change human behaviour relative to climate change, a recent example of biodiversity's importance ot human health and a source of his bond wit...
Read more...Priority list for improved health outcomes
A new paper "Nature, Childhood, Health and Life Pathways" has suggested that active living policies need to be integrated into all aspects of public policy and has recommended a ten point priority list for improved health outcomes , many related to interaction with nature.
One of the paper's author's, Professor Jo Barton of the interdisciplinary Centre for Environment and Society - University of Essex, will be presenting at the Congress.
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