Nature and wellbeing
15 important questions on Nature and wellbeing
What are environmental determinants?
How has our understanding of the connection between health and the environment shifted throughout history?
- From the time of the Greeks to the 19th centurey: environment & health concerns were considered as entwined
- In the early 20th centruy environment & health drew apart. Environmentalism emerged as a seperate movement that had no real helath dimension
- Since the 1960/1970 environmental and health has started to be connected again
What did Hippocrates do for human wellbeing?
- Greek philospher often dubbed the 'father of medicine'
- his ideas are based on the belief that the natural world affects the internal balance of the body
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What are the 4 fluids that mirror the elements of nature?
- Blood
- Phlegm
- Black Bile
- White Bile
How did the Romans expand the Greek ideas?
- They constructed elaborate public baths, aqueducts, and sewage systems, recognizing the importance of celan water and sanitation for public health.
- The Roman architect Vitruvius discussed how architectural design should harmonize with the natural environment to promote well-being.
What characterizes the dark ages of medicine and health research?
- 5th-6th centuries
- little advancement of medicine
- a lot of superstition and dogma
- plagues were god's punishment
- little interest and understanding in origin of disease
When did people start to study the links between environmental and health?
- empirical study of relationships between climate, topography, weather, geography and disease
What are nature 'cures'?
- Closely entwined with the pathologizing discourse were contrasting ideas about the healing properties of nature
- beginning in late 1500s physicians endorsed the healing effects of cold water for everything from heat stroke to melancholy
- 'nature cures' focused on rfesh air (usually coastal) and cold water (for bathing and drinking) were common until the start of the 20th century
How did health become distanced from the environment?
- development of evidence-based medicine
- evidence for the 'healing effect' of nature, for example natural springs and sea water cures, was seen to be lacking
- it's only in the last century (and a bit) that we have made a celad sitinction between medicine and magic, science and religion
What did reconnecting nature and health in the late 20th century look like?
- at population level, environmental determinats of health began
Nature emerging as a key site for health promotion
- accessible forms of physical activity
- research emerging on postive value of spending time in nature
How could connecting with nature influence sustainability/custodianship?
- Some people find it hard to connect to 'grand narratives' around sustainability, and saving the planet
What are green and blue spaces?
Blue: water dominated natural area
Through which 3 key pathways does nature affect individual wellbeing?
- Mental
- attention restoration, perspective on problems, cross-overs with physical benefits
- Physical
- excersize, multi sensory experiences, walking (accessible)
- stress reduction, reduced blood pressure, increased immune functioning
- Social
- integration, engagement, suport
- greenspaces, easy conversation starter
- many initiatives
What is a therapeutic landscape?
- any setting where people seek to achieve a health-related impact
- physical/built, social and symmbolic elements
What is place focussed research?
- Traditional healing sites
- healthcare/treatment sites
- spaces for marginal/jspecial populations
- everyday spaces
- healing places in literature, music, imagination
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