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Nature and mental health: An ecosystem service perspective.

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It is shown how ecosystem service assessments can be expanded to include mental health, and a heuristic, conceptual model for doing so is provided.
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A growing body of empirical evidence is revealing the value of nature experience for mental health. With rapid urbanization and declines in human contact with nature globally, crucial decisions must be made about how to preserve and enhance opportunities for nature experience. Here, we first provide points of consensus across the natural, social, and health sciences on the impacts of nature experience on cognitive functioning, emotional well-being, and other dimensions of mental health. We then show how ecosystem service assessments can be expanded to include mental health, and provide a heuristic, conceptual model for doing so.

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Social interactions in urban parks: stimulating social cohesion?

TL;DR: This article found that urban parks are more inclusive green places than non-urban green areas, and urban parks can promote social cohesion, and that informal and cursory interactions can stimulate social cohesion.
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Urban nature in a time of crisis: recreational use of green space increases during the COVID-19 outbreak in Oslo, Norway

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how social distancing measures affected recreational use of urban green space during the partial lockdown in Oslo, Norway, and find that outdoor recreational activity increased by 291% during lockdown relative to a 3-yr average for the same days.
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Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action.

TL;DR: COVID-19 is conceptualized as a unique, compounding, multidimensional stressor that will create a vast need for intervention and necessitate new paradigms for mental health service delivery and training.
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Contact with blue-green spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown beneficial for mental health.

TL;DR: Findings can help decision-makers in developing potential future lockdown measures to mitigate the negative impacts, helping people to be more resilient and maintain better mental health, using the benefits that ecosystem services are providing.
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Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on urban park visitation: a global analysis.

TL;DR: Recommendations are provided for park managers and other decision-makers in terms of park management and planning during health crises, as well as for park design and development that suggest parks could be utilized during pandemics to increase the physical and mental health and social well-being of individuals.
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

TL;DR: An issue concerning the criteria for tic disorders is highlighted, and how this might affect classification of dyskinesias in psychotic spectrum disorders.
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Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

Theo Vos, +778 more
- 16 Sep 2017 - 
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of prevalence, incidence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) for 328 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2016.
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Global physical activity levels: surveillance progress, pitfalls, and prospects

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe physical activity levels worldwide with data for adults (15 years or older) from 122 countries and for adolescents (13-15-years-old) from 105 countries.
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A typology for the classification, description and valuation of ecosystem functions, goods and services

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework and typology for describing, classifying and valuing ecosystem functions, goods and services in a clear and consistent manner is presented. And a classification is given for the fullest possible range of 23 ecosystem functions.
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