Now more than ever we are becoming more dependent on outdoor spaces to improve our health and wellbeing. Green environments are associated with reduced levels of depression, anxiety and fatigue and can enhance quality of life for both children and adults. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Access to good quality greenspaces, such as parks, allotments, woodlands and fields varies greatly on where we live. However, evidence suggests that\u00a0the most economically deprived areas often have less available public greenspace, meaning people in those communities\u00a0have fewer opportunities to\u00a0reap the rewards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new report from PHE offers policy, practice and research recommendations. Click here <\/a>to find out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Compelling evidence shows that access to greenspaces really matters for our health Now more than ever we are becoming more dependent on outdoor spaces to improve our health and wellbeing. Green environments are associated with reduced levels of depression, anxiety and fatigue and can enhance quality of life for both children and adults. Access to … Continue reading “Greenspaces”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,53,62,142,210,271],"tags":[2702,2786,6126],"class_list":["post-24245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-care","category-community-mental-health","category-department-of-health","category-mental-health-healthy-lifestyles","category-public-health","category-well-being","tag-green-health","tag-health-and-wellbeing","tag-wellbeing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24246,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24245\/revisions\/24246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}