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Green space positively influences health and well-being

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Organisation:
British Medical Journal (BMJ)

Media type:
Academic Research

Topic:
Behaviour change

Setting:
Community, Families / residential, Individuals, Town centres / Urban, Leisure & recreation / tourism, Countryside / Rural

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Green space positively influences health and well-being; however, inequalities in use of green space are prevalent.
Movement restrictions enforced due to the COVID-19 pandemic could have exacerbated existing inequalities regarding who visits green space.

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Inequalities
in green space use were sustained, and possibly exacerbated, during movement restrictions
This study aimed to explore how movement restrictions have changed the time spent visiting green space and experience of green space in the United Kingdom (UK) and how these differed by individual-level demographic characteristics.
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