Mental/Physical
What total area is covered by parkland in the US?
Over 1 Million Acres
Evidence shows that time spent in outdoor environments increases what?
Engagement in physical activity
John Rauch considered a park to be what?
The "lungs of the city"
Health and Leisure researchers came together to what?
Nature Deficit Disorder
the human cost of alienation from nature: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses (Louv)
What is the most well recognized health benefit associated with park, outdoor and nature settings?
Mental Health Restoration (Stress or Anxiety Reduction)
Studies show that low income communities of color are disproportionately affected by higher rates of what?
Health problems, and/or poor access to physical activity settings like parks and open space.
Define trans-disciplinary collaboration
People move beyond discipline specific models and develop a single model or approach that meets the needs of all involved.
Eco-psychology
What do we do to the earth and what does the earth do for us, for our health. Includes nature therapy.
Value is placed on the existence of parks and natural settings when?
Even when they do not use them.
Parks with paved trails were how many times more likely to be used for physical activity than parks without paved trails?
26
Lack of physical activity have major health consequences...such as
Colorado Public Health/ Parks & Recreation Collaborative
What is Jo's collaborative project?
Children need nature for...
healthy development of their senses, for learning and for creativity.
The outdoors has a beneficial effect on what health indicators? (Name 3)
Blood pressure, heart rate, mood, effectiveness, social behavior, cognitive functioning and work performance.
How to parks promote social health in a community?
Fostering community cohesion, pride, and social relationships which in turn promote access to health promoting resources.
Outdoor recreation is?
Any recreation activity you do outside
Describe a social-ecological approach to health and wellness through an outdoor recreation initiative.
Utilize example from all 5 levels: individual, interpersonal, organization (institution), community and society (public policy).
Author of Last Child in the Woods
Richard Louv
What is positively correlated with self-reports of general health?
The amount of green space in one's immediate living environment.
Park Based Social Capital is described as...
pattern of social interaction and values among park users, social support and leverage, park attachment, and informal social control - centered around a specific park
Frederick Law Olmsted
The collaboration between the leisure and health fields identified 3 issues. Name 2
1. how to use parks and outdoor recreation opps to reverse the low levels of physical activity
2. how parks and outdoor recreation can help reduce substantial health and wellness disparities
3. how to structure the collaboration
100 Actions We Can Take...to get outdoors more
Name any 3, for families, adults, teens, college students.