Improving health and well-being independently of GDP: Dividends of greener and prosocial economies

International Journal of Environmental Health Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 11-36

  Pretty, Jules ^a   Barton, Jo ^a   Pervez Bharucha, Zareen ^a   Bragg, Rachel ^a   Pencheon, David ^b   Wood, Carly ^a   Depledge, Michael H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

green economies; green exercise; health costs; loneliness; material consumption; mental health; obesity; physical inactivity; sustainable behaviours; well being

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; COST ANALYSIS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; MENTAL HEALTH; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUSTAINABILITY;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMUNITY; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAMILY; FOOD INTAKE; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MENTAL DISEASE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL INACTIVITY; SOCIAL CAPITAL; UNITED KINGDOM; WELLBEING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84955211133     PISSN: 09603123     EISSN: 13691619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603123.2015.1007841     Document Type: Article

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