Can natural and virtual environments be used to promote improved human health and wellbeing?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4660-4665

  Depledge, M H ^a   Stone, R J ^a,b   Bird, W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D ENVIRONMENTS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; COGNITIVE ACTIVITIES; DIGITAL TERRAIN ELEVATION DATUM; GAME DEVELOPMENT; HIGH-RESOLUTION AERIAL IMAGES; HUMAN HEALTH; LONG TERM CARE; MULTISENSORY; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; PHYSICS-BASED; RESTORATIVE ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL SOUND; STRESS REDUCTION; TABLE OF CONTENTS; VEGETATION MODEL; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; WEATHER CHANGE; WELLBEING;

HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; LANDFORMS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PATIENT REHABILITATION; SLEEP RESEARCH; VIRTUAL REALITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COGNITION; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; GREENSPACE; HEALTH SERVICES; HOSPITAL SECTOR; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; VILLAGE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; NATURAL SCIENCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; URBAN AREA; VIRTUAL REALITY; WELLBEING;

ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH; HUMANS; NATURE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79957838078     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103907m     Document Type: Article

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