The articles in the database below represent a curated selection from our NHA (full) members and Executive Committee. Rather than being a comprehensive database, like what you would find on a mainstream database, this is a limited and curated list of articles gathered by our member. To be included, these peer-reviewed articles and resources must meet specific criteria, ensuring a foundation of quality. Articles included cover a diverse array of study types—experiments, qualitative research, and meta-analyses—all exploring the intricate relationship between nature and well-being. Priority is accorded to works addressing DEIJ matters or fostering consensus on vital topics. If you would like to submit an article to be featured in the database, please email manager@naturehealthalliance.org.
Authors:Michelle Tester-Jones, Mathew P. White, Netta Weinstein, Lewis R. Elliott, James Grellier, Theo Economou, Gregory N. Bratman, Anne Cleary, Mireia Gascon, Kalevi Korpela, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Aisling O'Connor, Ann Ojala, Matilda A. van den Bosch and Lora E. Fleming |
| Scientific Reports | Scientific Reports: 19408
Exposure to natural environments is associated with a lower risk of common mental health disorders (CMDs), such as depression and anxiety, but we know little about nature-related motivations, practices and experiences of those already experiencing CMDs.
Authors:Kimberly L. Meidenbauer, Cecilia U.D. Stenfors, Gregory N. Bratman, James J. Gross, Kyoung Whan Choe, Cecilia U.D. Stenfors and Marc G. Berman |
| Journal of Environmental Psychology | Volume 72: 101498
Nature interactions have been demonstrated to produce reliable affective benefits.
Authors:Mathew P. White, Gregory N. Bratman, Sabine Pahl, Gerald Young, Deborah Cracknell and Lewis R. Elliott |
| Journal of Environmental Psychology | Volume 72: 101502
Recent reports have presented evidence of dramatic biodiversity declines.
In industrialized and urbanized societies, medical science focuses primarily on trauma and diseases, and most environmental work attempts to remediate natural and anthropogenic degradation.
Authors:Jenny Rowland-Shea, Sahir Doshi, Shanna Edberg and Robert Fanger |
Clean drinking water, clean air, public parks and beaches, biodiversity, and open spaces are shared goods to which every person in the United States has an equal right both in principle and in law.
The environmental services and benefits of urban trees are diverse and well recognized. What is less recognized is the relationship between urban trees and human health.
Authors:Kathleen L. Wolf, Sharon T. Lam, Jennifer K. McKeen, Gregory R. A. Richardson, Matilda A. van den Bosch and Adrina C. Bardekjian |
| International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | Volume 17, Issue 11: 4371
The urban forest is a green infrastructure system that delivers multiple environmental, economic, social and health services, and functions in cities.
Authors:Michelle C. Kondo, Kehinde O. Oyekanmi, Allison Gibson, Eugenia C. South, Jason Bocarro and J. Aaron Hipp |
| International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | Volume 17, Issue 12
Nature prescription programs have emerged to address the high burden of chronic disease and increasingly sedentary and screen-based lifestyles.
Authors:David Sabgir and Joan Dorn |
| Current Cardiology Reports | Volume 22, Issue 7
Walk with a Doc focuses on bringing physician-led enthusiasm into our communities by organizing regular doctor-led walks in the outdoors; as well as Walk with a Future Doc, which encourages medical students to start their own Walk with a Doc programs.
Hospital length of stay (LOS) is often used as a proxy for healthcare cost in the United States. This study investigates the association between outdoor air pollution and LOS among pediatric asthma patients. Air pollution data was collected from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data on hospitalizations and air pollution were analyzed and show that air pollution was significantly associated with prolonged LOS.
Authors:Juha Baek, Bita Kash, Xiaohui Xu, Mark Benden, Jon Roberts and Genny Carrillo |
| International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | Volume 17, Issue 11: 3812
Although hospital length of stay (LOS) has been identified as a proxy measure of healthcare expenditures in the United States, there are limited studies investigating the potentially important association between outdoor air pollution and LOS for pediatric asthma.
Authors:Lewis R. Elliott, Mathew P. White, James Grellier, Joanne K. Garrett, Marta Cirach, Benedict W. Wheeler, Gregory N. Bratman, Matilda A. van den Bosch, Ann Ojala, Anne Roiko, Maria L. Lima, Aisling O'Connor, Mireia Gascon, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen and Lora E. Fleming |
| Landscape and Urban Planning | Volume 198 (June 2020): 103800
Varied categorisations of residential distance to bluespace in population health studies make comparisons difficult. Using survey data from eighteen countries, we modelled relationships between residential distance to blue spaces (coasts, lakes, and rivers), and self-reported recreational visits to these environments at least weekly, with penalised regression splines.
Authors:Sara Barron, Sophie Nitoslawski, Kathleen L. Wolf, Angie Woo, Erin Desautels and Stephen R. J. Sheppard |
| International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | Volume 16, Issue 21: 4241
It is increasingly evident that exposure to green landscape elements benefits human health.
Authors:Gregory N. Bratman, Christopher B. Anderson, Marc G. Berman, Bobby Cochran, Sjerp de Vries, Jon Flanders, Carl Folke, Howard Frumkin, James J. Gross, Terry Hartig, Peter H. Kahn Jr., Ming Kuo, Joshua J. Lawler, Phillip S. Levin, Therese Lindahl, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Richard Mitchell, Zhiyun Ouyang, Jenny Roe, Lynn Scarlett, Jeffrey R. Smith, Matilda A. van den Bosch, Benedict W. Wheeler, Mathew P. White, Hua Zheng and Gretchen C. Daily |
| Science Advances | Volume 5, Issue 7
A growing body of empirical evidence is revealing the value of nature experience for mental health. With rapid urbanization and declines in human contact with nature globally, crucial decisions must be made about how to preserve and enhance opportunities for nature experience.
Authors:Lærke Mygind, Eva Kjeldsted, Rikke Hartmeyer, Erik Mygind, Mads Bølling and Peter Bentsen |
| Health & Place | Volume 58
In this systematic review, we summarised and evaluated the evidence for benefits of immersive nature-experience on children and adolescents' mental, physical and social health.
Authors:Mathew P. White, Ian Alcock, James Grellier, Benedict W. Wheeler, Terry Hartig, Sara L. Warber, Angie Bone, Michael H. Depledge and Lora E. Fleming |
| Scientific Reports | Scientific Reports: 7730
Spending time in natural environments can benefit health and well-being, but exposure-response relationships are under-researched.
Authors:Heather Tallis, Gregory N. Bratman, Jameal F. Samhouri and Joseph Fargione |
| Frontiers in Psychology | Volume 9: 2074
Unprecedented rates of urbanization are changing our understanding of the ways in which children build connections to the natural world, including the importance of educational settings in affecting this relationship.
