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Human Health, Well-being

and Restoration: The Benefit

of Contact with Nature

Human Health & Well-being

• (^) World Health Organization defined human health as; o Health is “A state of complete physical, mental and social well- being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.

Why Mental Well-being is

Important?

Prediction on Human Health

World Health Organization expected 1 : o By the year of 2020, stressful lifestyle and depression-related illness will become the greatest source for morbidity and premature death for all ages and genders in worldwide.

Levels of Stress

• (^) Chronic Stress: o Long term stress o Treatments: cognitive behavioral therapy and medication.
• (^) Acute Stress: o Short term stress o Once the situation is resolved, the stress be diminished.

Psychological, Physiological and

Behavioural Stress Symptoms

Restoration o (^) Counterpoise to Stressful lifestyle o (^) Restoration is renewing and re- establishing of the physical and mental resources that diminished in daily life.

Nature & Human Health

• Biophilia Hypothesis by Edward O. Wilson (1984): o “Human affiliation with nature and living things”. o Living systems in Biophilia : Animals, Plants, Wilderness, Landscapes Exposure to natural environments increase the human health and wellbeing.

Blue Spaces (Water) Natural Environments Green Spaces (Vegetation) Marine environments o Lakes o Rivers o Beaches o Coasts o Urban Parks o Open Green Spaces o Pocket Parks o Forests, Woodlands o Community Gardens o Green Neighborhood spaces White Spaces (Snow) o Mountains covered with Snow

Characteristics of restorative

environments:

1. Being away: psychological and geographical distance from everyday life.
2. Extent: environment is rich enough to see and can remain engage for a long time.
3. Fascination: involuntary attention to fascinating objects like sunset, snow pattern.
4. Compatibility: “environment should fit with what one wants to do and support intended activities”.