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Forest medicine / Qing Li, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Public health in the 21st century series.
- Environmental health (Nova Science Publishers)
- Public health in the 21st century
- Environmental health--physical, chemical and biological factors
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forest reserves--Therapeutic use.
- Forest reserves.
- Forest reserves--Psychological aspects.
- Trees--Therapeutic use.
- Trees.
- Trees--Psychological aspects.
- Human beings--Effect of environment on.
- Human beings.
- Nature, Healing power of.
- Alternative medicine.
- Medicine, Preventive.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Imagine a new medical science that could let you know how to be more active, more relaxed and healthier with reduced stress and reduced risk of lifestyle-related disease and cancer by visiting forests. This new medical science is called forest medicine. Forest medicine encompasses the effects of forest environments on human health and is a new interdisciplinary science, belonging to the categories of alternative medicine, environmental medicine and preventive medicine. This book presents up-to-date findings in forest medicine to show the beneficial effects of forest environments on human health.
- Contents:
- section 1. Introduction
- section 2. Evaluations of the forest environment
- section 3. Effects of the forest environment on human health
- section 4. Effects of factors in the forest environment on human health
- section 5. Green areas and human health : epidemiological studies
- section 6. Research into forests and human health- recent trends worldwide.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61470-982-3
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