Health Care and Community Engagement in the Outdoor Context
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 1865
Special Issue Editor
Interests: health promotion; planetary health; community health; mental health; nature based interventions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The importance of nature and the natural environment, as a determinant of human health and wellbeing, has been a matter of scholarly and practical interest, with novel programs emerging across the globe. Understandings of program design, community engagement, and issues of practice and implementation are increasingly sought in order to extend knowledge of “what works”. The editors seek to collate diverse disciplinary, cross-sectoral, interprofessional, and community-centered studies concerned with multiple levels of intervention for outdoor experiences and health—i.e., discoveries from program designs and implementation, outcomes, and lessons learned. Original research, novel review papers, and personal narratives are welcomed, as are investigations that use mixed and qualitative methods. Topics of interest are intentionally wide-ranging and may include:
- interaction with animals, plants, and/or landscapes for health;
- outdoor experiences and health;
- outdoor interventions;
- ecotherapy;
- parks and green prescribing approaches;
- forest bathing;
- green care farms;
- community gardens;
- ecological grief;
- land-based health care and education;
- indigenous approaches;
- issues of access, diversity and equity;
- disability and social vulnerability;
- implementation studies (studies of what works);
- individual, community and policy level interventions and outcomes;
- antiracism and antidiscrimination program strategies;
- relationship and connection with nature;
- nature/built environment interactions;
- reciprocal healing of humans and nature.
Prof. Dr. Sonya L. Jakubec
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ecotherapy
- social/parks/green prescribing
- outdoor interventions
- implementation studies
- health and nature
