Walks and contact with nature become a real therapy in the UK where doctors can already prescribe them in a prescription
Don't store avocado like this: it's dangerousWalks and contact with nature become a real therapy in the UK where doctors can already prescribe them in a prescription
In the United Kingdom, long walks in the countryside, in full contact with nature, are no longer a suggestion recommended by doctors together with conventional therapies, but can be prescribed by the doctor as real therapies.
La green prescription, so this medical prescription has been renamed, becomes reality thanks to the new recovery plan from Covid-19 announced last year by the British government which provides, among many points, the re-establish a connection with nature for the positive effects it has on people's mental and physical health. To implement it, a good 4 million pounds had been allocated in the two-year pilot project and today they are already starting to estimate the benefits.
Contact with nature, the benefits of which have been known for millennia, is the means by which British politicians want to return to their normalcy, upset by the Coronavirus epidemic. The green prescriptions would indeed aim to recreate a "new normal".
Walk in gardens, parks, woods or along the coast. These are the new therapies that doctors and health and social services can prescribe to manage the anxiety and stress generated by the ongoing health emergency thanks to nature.
You don't have to travel miles and miles to benefit from Mother Nature, any walk in the open air where you are immersed in greenery is fine as this not only strengthens our immune system, but promotes physical activity, relaxes the body and mind. And in many English and international schools, excursions into the countryside are already part of the class schedule.
Spending more time in the green also changes the individual's approach to rural areas that are seen differently with this new way of understanding nature that aims to protect green environments, but also to redevelop areas that do not have them.
In Sheffield, for example, over 60 meters of the playground and playground of a primary school had already been filled with lots of plants thanks to the GoGoGreen project which, in addition to reducing the air pollution that the children of the area breathe, wanted to increase the psychological well-being of young students and staff with this real green barrier.
Green prescriptions are therefore showing enormous potential. But to really work, they must be seen as the beginning of a much more holistic way of delivering health and social care: part of a post-COVID "new normal", a new philosophy of thinking that actually takes up what is has always been known: being in contact with nature is good for the body, mind and spirit.
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