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The environmental services and benefits of urban trees are diverse and well recognized. What is less recognized is the relationship between urban trees and human health.

The urban forest is a green infrastructure system that delivers multiple environmental, economic, social and health services, and functions in cities.

Nature prescription programs have emerged to address the high burden of chronic disease and increasingly sedentary and screen-based lifestyles.

Walk with a Doc focuses on bringing physician-led enthusiasm into our communities by organizing regular doctor-led walks in the outdoors; as well as Walk with a Future Doc, which encourages medical students to start their own Walk with a Doc programs.

Hospital length of stay (LOS) is often used as a proxy for healthcare cost in the United States. This study investigates the association between outdoor air pollution and LOS among pediatric asthma patients. Air pollution data was collected from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data on hospitalizations and air pollution were analyzed and show that air pollution was significantly associated with prolonged LOS.

Although hospital length of stay (LOS) has been identified as a proxy measure of healthcare expenditures in the United States, there are limited studies investigating the potentially important association between outdoor air pollution and LOS for pediatric asthma.

Varied categorisations of residential distance to bluespace in population health studies make comparisons difficult. Using survey data from eighteen countries, we modelled relationships between residential distance to blue spaces (coasts, lakes, and rivers), and self-reported recreational visits to these environments at least weekly, with penalised regression splines.

Despite increasing scientific understanding of the global environmental crisis, we struggle to adopt the policies science suggests would be effective.

It is increasingly evident that exposure to green landscape elements benefits human health.

A growing body of empirical evidence is revealing the value of nature experience for mental health. With rapid urbanization and declines in human contact with nature globally, crucial decisions must be made about how to preserve and enhance opportunities for nature experience.

In this systematic review, we summarised and evaluated the evidence for benefits of immersive nature-experience on children and adolescents' mental, physical and social health.

Spending time in natural environments can benefit health and well-being, but exposure-response relationships are under-researched.

Para mejorar su salud, la gente decide ir al gimnasio o comer comida orgánica pero ¿qué tal simplemente sentarse bajo un árbol?

Unprecedented rates of urbanization are changing our understanding of the ways in which children build connections to the natural world, including the importance of educational settings in affecting this relationship.

The health benefits of greenspaces have demanded the attention of policymakers since the 1800s.

This report provides a new perspective that merges recent innovations: nature for water management and nature for human health.

A balanced diet and regular exercise are fundamental for good health, and a daily dose of nature may be equally important. Nearly 40 years of research has demonstrated that “metro nature”—nature found in urban environments, such as parks or tree-lined streets—provides positive and measurable health benefits and improves people’s quality of life.

At a time of increasing disconnectedness from nature, scientific interest in the potential health benefits of nature contact has grown. Research in recent decades has yielded substantial evidence, but large gaps remain in our understanding.

People can make choices to improve personal health, such as going to the gym or eating organic food, but what about just sitting under a tree?

This article reports the outcomes of a systematic review of observational park-based physical activity (PA) studies.