A Guide to the Healthy Parks Healthy People Approach and Current Practices

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1 Stream opening: human health and well-being depends on nature An international panel including experts from the health sector, the IUCN, immigration and settlement, sustainable development and the environment sector set the scene for the Improving Health and Well-being: Healthy Parks Healthy People stream. They introduced the diverse links between human health and wellbeing with parks and protected areas. Discussions covered global issues, regional and national approaches and different perspectives relating to human health, well-being, nature and sustainable development. The session also gave an overview of the inspiring side events and capacity development workshops available in the stream. Summary of session and discussion There is growing recognition by the health sector that the parks and protected area sector are wanting to work together with them and the health sector are now paying more attention to the connections between parks, human health and well-being. The health sector needs data and quantitative evidence about the health benefits of nature, which compared to research on medication, is minimal. The United Nations is in the process of defining a post-2015 development agenda, with United Nations Member States leading the process, and broad participation from governments, major groups, and civil society. There are opportunities for the new Sustainable Development Goals to address key issues including environmental and human health links as important priorities. (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/) The United States National Park Service has more than 100 partnerships with health practitioners. Prescribing outdoor activity as a medical treatment is occurring across the state of California. This is particularly effective for low socio-economic communities with minimal capacity to purchase insurance or medications. The United States National Park Service has created a Science Plan that is a partnership with universities and medical schools to contribute to research that demonstrates the health benefits of parks. Parks provide the opportunity for refugees and newly arrived persons to reconnect with nature and the landscape, promoting the development of relationships and ties to their new communities and homeland. Protected Area managers may benefit from becoming more economically literate so they are able to communicate to the corporate sector the benefits of investing in nature and businesses may further invest in “green” initiatives that improve health of ecosystems and people. Session managers Bill Jackson and Kathryn Campbell, Parks Victoria 14 Session contributors – Achim Steiner, United Nations Environment Programme, Kenya – Julia Marton-Lefevre, IUCN, Switzerland – Jonathan Jarvis, United States National Park Service, USA – Melika Yassin Sheik-Elden, Australian Multicultural Education Service, Australia – Pierre Horwitz, School of Natural Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Australia – Dawn Carr, Canadian Parks Council, Canada – Damein Bell, Gurdjti Marring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation, Australia – Christopher Briggs, Ramsar Convention Secretariat, Switzerland
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While urbanisation has brought many
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