Healthy Parks, Healthy People: The Health Benefits of Contact with Nature in a Park Context
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Ed. note: With the increasing recognition of the value of nature to human health and wellbeing, Parks Victoria will host the first International Healthy Parks Healthy People Congress in 2010. The aim of the congress is to raise awareness of recent research, highlight case studies, and facilitate discussion regarding the advantages of, and opportunities for, future collaboration. The congress will be staged in Melbourne, Australia, 11–16 April 2010. See healthyparkshealthypeoplecongress.org for further details.
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