ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Let Nature Be Thy Medicine: A Socioecological Exploration of Green Prescribing in the UK.
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- A nature-based intervention for bereaved friend and family cancer caregivers: a study protocol.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- Creating and sustaining enabling systems and communities to address social needs: protocol for a living lab social prescribing study.BMC primary care · 2025Article
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- Nature prescribing: emerging insights about reconciliation-based and culturally inclusive approaches from a tricultural community health centre.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2024Article
- Green Social Prescribing in Practice: A Case Study of Walsall, UK.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Understanding the pathways between the use of urban green spaces and self-rated health: A case study in Mexico City.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
Prescribing nature-based health interventions (green prescribing)-such as therapeutic horticulture or conservation activities-is an emerging transdisciplinary strategy focussed on reducing noncommunicable diseases. However, little is known about the practice of, and socioecological constraints/opportunities associated with, green prescribing in the UK. Furthermore, the distribution of green prescribing has yet to be comprehensively mapped. In this study, we conducted a socioecological exploration of green prescribing. We deployed online questionnaires to collect data from general practitioners (GPs) and nature-based organisations (NBOs) around the UK and conducted spatial analyses. Our results indicate that GPs and NBOs perceive and express some common and distinct constraints to green prescribing. This highlights the need to promote cross-disciplinary communication pathways. Greenspace presence and abundance within close proximity (100 and 250 m) to GP surgeries (but not greenness-as a proxy for vegetation cover) and NBO presence within 5 km were associated with higher levels of green prescribing provision. Lower levels of deprivation were associated with higher frequency of NBOs. This suggests that the availability of greenspaces and NBOs could be important for green prescribing provision, but there could be greater opportunities in less deprived areas. Important foci for future research should be to establish transdisciplinary collaborative pathways, efficient infrastructure management and a common vocabulary in green prescribing-with the overall aim of reducing inequalities and enhancing planetary health.
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