Across the world, science museums are beginning to join conversations and develop work about mental health.
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Yoga helps with health and wellbeing and is recommended to NHS patients in the UK, but new research shows people who could benefit most find it hardest to access.
Loneliness is common – and so is our alienation from nature. New research shows we can tackle both at the same time
Supporting preventive and social care through investment in community connectors addresses the root cause of health issues, lowers future curative costs and provides better value for taxpayers.
Access to nature is provenly beneficial. Yet the UK’s urban green spaces are poorly funded and are vulnerable to local government budget cuts.
Young people were experiencing increasing rates of loneliness well before the pandemic shut things down.
Social prescribing programmes could provide children and adolescents much needed opportunities to socialise and be active.
Even the Victorians knew the powerful effect music has on mental health.
A new review finds an absence of evidence for social prescribing.
Food security is crucial to disease prevention and management, so prescribing healthy foods and reducing barriers to better diets makes sense. But food prescriptions should not be immune to scrutiny.
People can counter the helplessness felt during the pandemic and build power by creating a sense of purpose and community amid the confusion of COVID-19.
Research shows hobbies may lower levels of depression.
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From happier and healthier residents to more resilient buildings – green roofs offer significant benefits to cities.
How gardening can make you happier and healthier.
Older men are more at risk of loneliness than woman. Feeling isolated increases the risk of anxiety and depression.
Arts on prescription are changing the way we treat health problems.
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Professor of Urban Sustainability, University of Salford
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Professor of Planning, Birmingham City University
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PhD Researcher in Systems Science, University of Hull
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Associate Professor | Queen's School of Nursing, Associate Director | Graduate Nursing and Health Quality Programs, Queen's University, Ontario
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Clinical Research Fellow, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor in Public Health and Wellbeing, University of Greenwich
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Assistant Professor, School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria
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Associate Professor of Public Health and Policy and Associate Head of School for Student Success, University of Greenwich
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Associate Professor, Social & Behavioural Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) and Associate Fellow of the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC), Sheffield Hallam University
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Head of Personalised Medicine and Health, University of Leeds
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Project Coordinator (Social Prescribing Allyship and Community Engagement for the Evolution of Health), School of Nursing, Queen's University, Ontario
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Senior Lecturer Psychology, University of Westminster
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Research assistant, School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria