Revaluing parks and green spaces: measuring their economic and wellbeing value to individuals

This report demonstrates that parks and green spaces across the UK provide people with over £ 34 billion of health and wellbeing benefits and generates savings to the NHS of at least £ 111 million per year. It calculates that parks provide a total economic value to each person in the UK of just over £ 30 per year and that this is higher for individuals from lower socio-economic groups and also from black and minority ethnic backgrounds

Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - May 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news