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Showed that the QUALITY of PUBLIC OPEN SPACES had a DIRECT IMPACT upon user BEHAVIOUR so that well maintained spaces were subject to less VANDALISM and were perceived as SAFER

Decent Parks? Decent Behaviour?, 2004

This study has provided ROBUST EVIDENCE for the POSITIVE EFFECTS of gardening on HEALTH. A regular DOSE of gardening can improve PUBLIC HEALTH.

Meta analysis, 2016

To improve social problems - opening up public parks or prescription parks in towns

Public Walks and Places of Exercise, 1833

Being physically active for 30 minutes a day can directly reduce the risk of strokes, cardiovascular disease, obseity, some cancers and type 2 diabetes. It is estimated that 1 in 4 women and 1 in 5 men are less physically active than this And 1 in 4 children spend less than 30 minutes playing outside per week. Physical inactivity is the 4th largest cause of disease and mobidity in the UK contributing to 37,000 premature deaths per year

Green Space and Health, 2016

Study showing people living a 5-10 minute walk or more from public green space had a lower subjective level of wellbeing than those living less than 5 minutes walk away

Journal of Landscape and Urban Planning, 2021

study showing those with access to a private garden or public green space had higher levels of wellbeing than those without

Journal of Landscape and Urban Planning, 2021

Being close to a public green space or private garden during the pandemic had a greater health protective effect than those who did not

Journal of Landscape and Urban Planning, 2021

RHS study showing people generally garden for pleasure or work and not exercise

Why Garden? Attitudes and perceived health benefits of home gardening, 2021

Study that used mental health and mapping data to show that people living near to green space reported less mental distress even after adjusting for income, education and employment

University of Exeter Medical School, 2014

Study showing gardening is very effective in relieving stress - more than reading after doing a stressful task and then either reading or gardening fir 30 minutes. Gardening reduced saliva cortisol faster than reading and positive mood was restored after gardening but not reading

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2011

Study showing a lower instance of 15 physical and mental illnesses in people who lived less than half a mile from green spaces

Dutch research, 2009

Book arguing that planting decorative but low maintenance perennials on waste ground reduces dumping name Authors

Plant User Handbook, James Hitchmough and Ken Fieldhouse

Book arguing that gardening can be an effective treatment for PTSD in prisons etc In a powerful combination of contemporary neuroscience, psychoanalysis and brilliant storytelling, The Well Gardened Mind investigates the magic that many gardeners have known for years – working with nature can radically transform our health, wellbeing and confidence Title Author

The Well Gardened Mind, Sue Stuart-Smith

Organisations: The Gardening for Health Charity

Thrive

Organisations: charity helping green social prescribing for the NHS in Merseyside and Cheshire

The Natural Health Service

Organisations: historical organisation specifically for women and the WW2 movement it set up

Women's Farm and Garden Association, The Women's Land Army

Orgs: Charity creating gardens for spinal injury patients and those connected to them

Horatio's Garden

Orgs: Gardens designed for cancer patients and relatives garden designer

Maggie's Centres, Maggie Keswick Jencks

Leading public Health specialist who stated that gardening could help with the problems of a sedentary lifestyle, aging and mental health

Professor Sir Muir Gray

RHS organisation helping to get people involved in greening their local areas

It's Your Neighbourhood

The Economic Impact of Ornamental Horticulture and Landscaping the the UK states that: Gardening can provide _________ ______ from the ____-_______, ______-_______ thinking states that dominate modern life, thereby __________ ______. This is significant inlight of the fact that ______ <and> ________ ________ are one of the biggest and growing features of mental ill health in the uk

cognitive relief, goal-orientated, problem-solving, alleviating stress, stress and anxiety disorders

Economic Impact of OH and L in the UK report states that the economic impact of mental ill health can be seen in ________ _____ ________ Ouside if the report there is also the economic impact on

Constraining human potential, Absence from work, the NHS

ECONOMIC impact of OH and L in the UK states that access to horticulture and green spaces provides the following economic benefts:

Mental health, Physical health, Social cohesion and community, Crime

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