Hand et al. (1) make a most useful contribution to the debate on the role of urban greenspaces in providing well-being benefits for children. Their discussion of the increasing disconnection between people and nature as a result of urbanization is valuable in a context of a nonsustainable humanity. However, we challenge their claim that “Children’s use of different urban habitats and their sele...

[Purpose] The purpose of this case report is to present the effects of vestibular stimulation on a child with hypotonic cerebral palsy through the use of swings. [Case Description] The subject was a 19-month-old boy with a diagnosis of hypotonic cerebral palsy (CP) and oscillating nystagmus. The subject had received both physical therapy and occupational therapy two times per week since he was ...

OBJECTIVES This article examines the effects of early life socioeconomic conditions on the risk of cognitive impairment among oldest old persons in China. We also examine whether adult socioeconomic status mediates the association between early life socioeconomic status and cognitive impairment in old age. METHODS Data derived from two waves (1998-2000) of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Lon...

Cognitive enrichment is gaining popularity as a tool to enhance captive animal well-being, but research on captive cetaceans is lacking. Dolphin cognition has been studied intensively since the 1950s, and several hundred bottlenose dolphins are housed in major zoos and aquaria worldwide, but most dolphin enrichment consists of simple floating objects. The aim of this study was to investigate wh...

The ideology behind healing is a psychological and spiritual concept of health. Over the past few decades, the integration of a healing environment into medicine has taken a more holistic approach, and has transformed the hospital atmosphere into an exhilarating place, which affects both staff and patients’ wellbeing. Investigators have revealed that visual stimulation of nature, natural lighti...

But the originators of GNP never insisted that this was the only way of measuring an economy. In his Nobel lecture, for example, Kuznets specifically discussed the social implications of growth and argued that: ‘Many of these are of particular interest, because they are not reflected in the current measures of economic growth; and the increasing realization of this shortcoming of the measures h...

Contemporary nursing theories increasingly promote nursing as a specialist field facilitating patient wellbeing through therapeutic, qualitative approaches directed toward individual patient needs. Therapeutic touch is one such approach. The Nurse Healer’s Professional Associates International (NH-PAI) defines therapeutic touch as ‘a contemporary interpretation of several ancient-healing practi...

In the globalized world of the 21st century, most of the child population has been stimulated by many opportunities and challenges, but they have also found huge barriers in relation to their health, development and well-being in the form of environmental threats [1]. According to international data, in 2015, approximately 5.9 million children died under age five, in an estimated rate of 16,000...

OBJECTIVE There is evidence that parents play an important role in their adolescent's health and well-being, but the links between specific daily processes and biological mechanisms relevant to health remain to be determined. In this study, we examined the role of parental accuracy-that is, whether parents who are more accurate about their adolescents' daily experiences have adolescents with be...

Economic events of the past year are beginning to create hardships for tens of thousands of Canadians. There are likely to be health effects as well, to the extent that unemployment and poverty rates rise. Conditions, however, will be much worse for those living in poorer countries. High-income countries are committing trillions of dollars in countercyclical spending and banking bail-outs. Poor...