Outdoor-Based Therapy and Human Health
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2024) | Viewed by 2140
Special Issue Editor
Interests: forest therapy; social forestry; forest recreation; forest welfare; forest education; psychological benefits of forest/nature use; forest/nature and public health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are becoming an urban society, with more than 55% of the population living in urban settings. Rapid urbanization and urban drift centralization of the population are significant contributors to mental health and sedentary lifestyle diseases. To combat this, people are seeking access to outdoor environments. Concurrently, researchers/practitioners have developed an interest in establishing outdoor-based therapeutic approaches that share common practices such as place-based learning, forest therapy, embodied experiences, therapeutic adventure, and nature-based stress reduction.
This Special Issue aims to compile the latest progress and research outcomes in the field of outdoor-based therapy. Contributions may focus on one or more of the following areas:
- Empirical support for the effects of outdoor use/intervention and human health/welfare;
- Social and economic impacts of outdoor use and management in human health/welfare;
- Why and how outdoor environments contribute to human health and welfare, especially in preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical, social, and psychological welfare;
- Methodological innovation for evaluating human health/welfare effects from outdoors;
- Measuring economic benefits for using outdoor for human health/welfare.
Prof. Dr. Won-Sop Shin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- health and well-being outdoors
- stress reduction
- restorative environments
- forest therapy
- public health
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