Health & Wellbeing - Nature and health: What do we know, what do we need to know, and how do we get there?
Chairs: Rebecca Lovell and Ben Wheeler, University of Exeter Medical School
- Balancing Nature conservation and human health promotion - Rebecca Jefferson, RSPB
- Catherine Ward-Thompson, University of Edinburgh
- Is the valuation of health and wellbeing impacts valuable - Ruth Waters, Natural England
- Well-being (It really isn’t is problematic as some people seem to think) - Mat White, University of Exeter Medical School
- Action from global to local is it evidence based - Ben Wheeler, University of Exeter Medical School
Summary Points
We still lack practical evidence which can inform decisions about what to do, where, and for whom. Particularly regarding which interventions are co-beneficial (environment and health).
We need to think more about how to support and facilitate the kinds of research studies which are useful to those making decisions.
There are relatively easily achieved opportunities to improve the comparability of the evidence base by agreeing upon and integrating key measures (e.g. the 4 ONS wellbeing measures) into our studies.
