Oxford Textbook of Nature and Public Health

The Role of Nature in Improving the Health of a Population
Herausgeber: Bosch, Matilda van den; Bird, William

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* Section 1: Why is nature a health factor?
* 1.1: Matilda van den Bosch and William Bird: Setting the scene and
how to read the book
* 1.2: Felicia M. Low, Peter D Gluckman, and Mark A. Hanson: A life
course approach to public health: why early life matters
* 1.3: Karl-Henrik Robèrt, Michael T. Hernke, Luke Fortney, and Rian
Podein: Systems thinking for global health and strategic sustainable
development
* 1.4: Peter Währborg, Panagiota Pervanidou, and George P. Chrousos:
The physiology of stress and stress recovery
* 1.5: William Bird, Elissa Epel, Jeannette Ikovics, and Matilda van
den Bosch: Unifying mechanisms: nature deficiency and chronic stress
and inflammation
* Section 2: How nature can affect health- theories and mechanisms
* 2.1: Agnes E. van den Berg, and Henk Staats: Environmental psychology
* 2.2: Mardie Townsend, Claire Henderson-Wilson, Haywantee Ramkissoon,
and Rona Weerasuriya: Therapeutic landscapes, restorative
environments, place attachment, and wellbeing
* 2.3: Graham Rook: Microbes, the immune system and the health benefits
of exposure to the natural environment
* 2.4: Heidi Janssen, Julie Bernhardt, Frederick R. Walker, Neil J.
Spratt, Michael Pollack, Anthony Hannan, and Michael Nilsson:
Environmental enrichment: neurophysiological responses and
consequences for health
* 2.5: Caroline Hägerhäll, Richard Taylor, Greg Watts, Gunnar Cerwén,
Matilda van den Bosch, Daniel Press, and Steven Minta: Biological
mechanisms and physiological responses to sensory impact from nature
* 2.6: Leonie Venhoeven, Danny Taufik, Linda Steg, Marino Bonaiuto,
Mirilia Bonnes, Silvia Ariccio , Stefano de Dominicis, Massimiliano
Scopelliti, Matilda van den Bosch, Paul Piff, Jia Wei Zhang, and
Dacher Keltner: The role of nature and environment in behavioural
medicine
* Section 3: Public health impact of nature contact - pathways to
health promotion and disease prevention
* 3.1: Billie Giles-Corti, Fiona Bull, Hayley Christian, Mohammad Javad
Koohsari, Takemi Sugiyama, and Paula Hooper: Promoting physical
activity reducing obesity and NCDs
* 3.2: Matilda van den Bosch, Catharine Ward Thompson, and Patrik
Grahn: Preventing stress and promoting mental health
* 3.3: Birgit Elands, Karin Peters, and Sjerp de Vries: Promoting
social cohesion and social capital increasing wellbeing
* Section 4: Public health impact of nature contact- intervention and
rehabilitation
* 4.1: Anna María Pálsdóttir, Joe Sempik, William Bird, and Matilda van
den Bosch: Using nature as a treatment option
* 4.2: Aubrey H. Fine and Shawna Weaver: The human-animal bond and
animal assisted intervention
* 4.3: Cecilia Stenfors, Eva Bojner Horwitz, Töres Theorell, and Walter
Osika: Similarities, disparities, and synergies with other complex
interventions stress as a common pathway
* Section 5: Public health impact of varied landscapes and environments
* 5.1: Qing Li and Simon Bell: The great outdoors: forests, wilderness,
and public health
* 5.2: Mathew P. White, Rebecca Lovell, Benedict W. Wheeler, Sabine
Pahl, Sebastian Völker, and Michael H. Depledge: Blue landscapes and
public health
* 5.3: Peter H. Kahn, Jr: Technological nature and human wellbeing
* Section 6: Varied populations and interactions with nature
* 6.1: Nancy M. Wells, Francesqca E. Jimenez, and Fredrika Mårtensson:
Children and nature
* 6.2: Mark Detweiler, Jack Carman, and Jonna G. Meinersmann-Detweiler:
Nature-based treatments as an adjunctive therapy for anxiety among
elderly
* 6.3: Richard Mitchell, Julia Africa, and Alan Logan: Vulnerable
populations, health inequalities, and nature
* 6.4: Caroline Hägerhäll: Responses to nature from populations of
varied cultural background
* Section 7: Threats, environmental change, and unintended consequences
of nature - protecting health and reducing environmental hazards
* 7.1: Åslög Dahl, Matilda van den Bosch, and Thomas Ogren: Allergenic
pollen emissions from vegetation threats and prevention
* 7.2: David Wong: Vector-borne diseases and poisonous plants
* 7.3: Eric K. Noji. Anas Khan and Osama A Samarkandi: The health
impact of natural disasters
* 7.4: David J. Ball and Laurence N. Ball-King: Risk and the perception
of risk in interactions with nature
* 7.5: Anthony J. McMichael: Population health deficits due to
biodiversity loss, climate change, and other environmental
degradation
* Section 8: The nature of the city
* 8.1: Florian Lederbogen, Leila Haddad, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg,
Danielle Ompad, and Matilda van den Bosch: The shift from natural
living environments to urban population-based and neurobiological
implications for public health
* 8.2: Timothy Beatley and Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch: Urban
landscapes and public health
* 8.3: Stephen R. Kellert: Nature in buildings and health design
* 8.4: Raffaele Lafortezza and Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch: Green
infrastructure - approach and public health benefits
* 8.5: Elisabet Lindgren, My S. Almqvist, and Thomas Elmqvist:
Ecosystem services and health benefits an urban perspective
* 8.6: Evelyne de Leeuw and Premila Webster: The healthy settings
approach: healthy cities and environmental health indicators
* Section 9: Natural public health across the world
* 9.1: Emmanuel K. Boon and Albert Ahenkan: Africa and environmental
health trends
* 9.2: Ana Faggi, Sylvie Nail, Carolina Ceres, Sgobaro Zanette, and
Germán Tovar Corzo: Latin America and the environmental health
movement
* 9.3: Evelyne de Leeuw, Erik Martin, and Temo Waqanivalu: Healthy
islands
* Section 10: Bringing nature into public health plans and actions
* 10.1: Robert Zarr and William Bird: The role of the health
professional
* 10.2: Cinnamon P. Carlarne and Jeffrey M. Bielicki: The role of
environmental law
* 10.3: Salim Vohra, Marla Orenstein, Francesca Viliani, Ben Cave, Ben
Harris-Roxas, and Filipe Silva: Environmental assessment and health
impact assessment
* 10.4: David Nowak: Quantifying and valuing the role of trees and
forests on environmental quality and human health
* 10.5: Matilda van den Bosch, Cathey E. Falvo, Génon Jensen, Joshua
Karliner, and Rachel Stancliffe: The role of civil society and
organizations