Biodiversity

More 'Nature and Health' information

Hampshire

Hampshire County Council:

• Guidance note - 'Nature’s role in improving health and well-being'

• Report - ‘Nature and Health: Review of initiatives linking nature, health and wellbeing in Hampshire’

• Report - 'Nature, health and wellbeing - evidence to the Commission of  Inquiry on Personalisation'

General

• Natural England - 'Health and the natural environment'

• RSPB - 'Health - nature improves your fitness and reduces stress'

• Sustainable Development Commission – 'Healthy Futures'

• Wellbeing South East – 'physical activity'

• 'Walking for Health'

Policy, guidance and research

• Sustainable Development Commission - 'Improving young people's lives: The role of the environment in building resilience, responsibility and employment chances'

• Local Government Information Unit – 'Walking for health and wellbeing'

• Forest Research – 'Trees and woods for quality of life'

• Faculty of Public Health - 'Great Outdoors: How our natural health service uses green space to improve wellbeing' (pdf 3.6Mb)

• Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) - 'Community green: using local spaces to tackle inequality and improve health' (pdf 1.2Mb)

Department of Health guidance:

• Let’s Get Moving (pdf 1Mb)

• Be Active, Be Healthy (pdf 4Mb)

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE):

• Physical activity and the environment PH8

• Mental wellbeing and older people PH16