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The geography of health
| Author: |
Lyman, F. |
| Date: |
2002 |
| Periodical: |
Land and People |
| Link: |
http://www.tpl.org/tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=10709&folder_id=2225
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| Abstract: |
In an article in the April 2001 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Howard Frumkin, M.D. argues for a new approach to environmental health and medicine, one that focuses on the curative powers of nature rather than on its hazards. Frumkin�s investigations have augmented a growing body of evidence in a variety of disciplines�from biology to environmental psychology to landscape architecture�that natural surroundings may make us humans healthier, and maybe even happier and smarter.<br><br>Compiling data from surveys and case studies around the world, Frumkin found that clinics, hospitals, nursing homes, and even prisons that incorporate some element of nature�even just a nice view�show higher rehabilitation rates. His entrance into this field is helping boost attention to the decades-long research effort to track ways in which contact with nature might have restorative effects, for both physical and mental.
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