Healthy nature healthy people:'contact with nature'as an upstream health promotion intervention for populations

C Maller, M Townsend, A Pryor… - Health promotion …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Whilst urban-dwelling individuals who seek out parks and gardens appear to intuitively
understand the personal health and well-being benefits arising from 'contact with nature' …

Schools, health literacy and public health: possibilities and challenges

L St Leger - Health promotion international, 2001 - academic.oup.com
Health literacy is a concept that can be widely embraced by schools. Schools throughout the
world contribute to the achievement of public health goals in conjunction with their …

The opportunities and effectiveness of the health promoting primary school in improving child health—a review of the claims and evidence

LH St Leger - Health education research, 1999 - academic.oup.com
School health programs have been part of schooling for most of this century. The health
promoting school is a recently developed concept which seeks to provide a multifaceted …

Healthy parks, healthy people: The health benefits of contact with nature in a park context

C Maller, M Townsend, L St Leger… - The George Wright …, 2009 - JSTOR
This paper is an abridgment, made with the authors' permission, of a much longer mono-
graph," Healthy Parks, Healthy People: The Health Benefits of Contact with Nature in a Park …

Creating the document 'Promoting health in schools: from evidence to action'

L St Leger, IM Young - Global health promotion, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Schools across the world have been involved in health promotion and health education for
nearly a century. Do school based initiatives make any difference to the education and …

Schools for health, education and development: a call for action

KC Tang, D Nutbeam, C Aldinger… - Health promotion …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY In 2007, the World Health Organization, together with United Nations and
international organization as well as experts, met to draw upon existing evidence and …

[BOOK][B] Healthy parks, healthy people: the health benefits of contact with nature in a park context: a review of current literature

C Maller, M Townsend, P Brown, L St Leger - 2002 - dro.deakin.edu.au
This review identifies significant research that has not previously been compiled. It will
provide key information for decision making by park managers, forming the basis of a …

Can Health Promoting Schools contribute to the better health and wellbeing of young people? The Hong Kong experience

A Lee, FFK Cheng, Y Fung, L St Leger - Journal of Epidemiology & …, 2006 - jech.bmj.com
Background: The Health Promoting School (HPS) is a WHO sponsored framework, compiled
to enable education and health sectors to be more effective in school based initiatives. Aims …

What's the place of schools in promoting health? Are we too optimistic?

L St Leger - Health promotion international, 2004 - academic.oup.com
which it was assumed would reduce unnecessary injury, cardiovascular disease (in the
future), drug experimentation, etc. Most kits and curricula packages were based on a simple …

Health and nature—new challenges for health promotion

L St Leger - Health promotion international, 2003 - academic.oup.com
studies have demonstrated that office workers experienced lower job stress, higher job
satisfaction, and fewer illnesses if they had views of nature than if they did not (Kaplan and …