Promoting Nature-Based Activity for People With Mental Illness Through the US "Exercise Is Medicine" Initiative.
Am J Public Health
; 106(5): 796-9, 2016 May.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26985618
ABSTRACT
Nature-based physical activity programming (e.g., countryside walks, hiking, horseback riding) has been found to be an effective way to help improve the health of people with mental illness. Exercise referral initiatives, whereby health practitioners prescribe exercise in an attempt to prevent or treat chronic illnesses, have helped make such nature-based activities accessible to this population in the United Kingdom and Australia; however, there is a dearth of research related to the most prominent exercise referral program in the United States Exercise is Medicine. Taking into account the barriers to physical activity faced by people with mental illness, we explore how nature-based programming for this population might be mobilized in the United States through the growing Exercise is Medicine initiative.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Exercício Físico
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Nível de Saúde
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Meio Selvagem
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Promoção da Saúde
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Transtornos Mentais
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
País como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2016
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Article