Bird van den Bosch

Broschiertes Buch

Oxf Textb Nature & Pub Health Otph

Ncs P

Beschreibung

The 'Oxford Textbook of Nature and Public Health' focuses on the role of nature for our health and wellbeing by demonstrating the multiple health benefits that can be gained from nature. Highlighting the need for healthy nature management, and to make public health issues part of all society development policies.

Autor

Matilda van den Bosch is a physician with a PhD in landscape planning and public health. Her work cuts across medicine and environmental sciences, exploring interactions between human health and nature. Her main focus is health benefits from natural environments and how ecosystem services protect health in a changing climate. Her work is widely acknowledged, featuring in for example National Geographic. Apart from teaching and research activities at the University of British Columbia, Matilda has worked as a consultant to WHO, UN Environmental Programme, and the US Environmental Protection Agency. She is president of the Swedish Society of Behavioural Medicine and president elect of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment. William Bird is a GP with a special interest in the promotion of outdoor physical activity. He helped set up both the British Heart Foundation National Centre Physical Activity and Health in Loughborough University (2000) and European Centre for Environment and Human Health in Truro (2010). Between 2000 and 2005 he was clinical director at the Met Office working on the Health Forecasting service. In 2010 William was awarded the MBE for services to promote physical activity and health.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Textbooks in Public Health
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 220mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 972g
• ISBN-13: 9780198725916
• ISBN-10: 0198725914
• Artikelnr.: 48956286