Nature therapy

[摘要] Natural England has launched a health campaign which aims to ‘encourage’ GPs and other health professionals ‘to make more use of the natural environment as part of the total health care they give to their patients’.1 According toWilliam Bird, a Berkshire GP and Natural England's health advisor, ‘increasing evidence suggests that both physical and mental health are improved through contact with nature’. A campaign fact sheet claims that ‘aggression and domestic violence is (sic) less likely in low-income families with views or access to natural green space’ and that ‘crime rates are lower in tower blocks with more natural green space than identical tower blocks with no surrounding vegetation’ (no references provided).

[学科分类] 卫生学