Podcast: Local green spaces and mental health

Dear CHAIN member,

We would like to draw your attention to the following NIHR alert. Please pass on as appropriate. Thank you.

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Local green spaces are linked with better mental health

Podcast: Local green spaces and mental health

In this podcast, Helen Saul, Editor in Chief of NIHR Evidence, and study author Sarah Rodgers, Professor of Health Informatics, University of  Liverpool, discuss the impact of local green spaces on people's mental health.

Researchers analysed data on more than 2 million people in Wales over 10 years to explore the impact of green spaces on mental health. They linked information about people’s mental health with information about the greenness of their home’s immediate surroundings and how close they lived to green or blue spaces (such as parks, lakes, and beaches). They found that people had a lower risk of anxiety and depression if:

· their home’s immediate surroundings (within 200-300 metres) were greener
· they could access green and blue spaces nearby.

The researchers say that local authorities could improve the mental health of their community by increasing the greenery in their towns and cities and improving access to green and blue spaces.

Read more at: https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/local-green-spaces-are-linked-with-better-mental-health/?source=chainmail

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Irina Johnston
CHAIN Administrative Assistant

(and my source.)

Previously: 

c/o @TheLancetPlanet - Paper: Residential greenness and prevalence of major depressive disorders... or "All colours fictitious"

'nature'

ERCIM News No. 133 Special theme: "Data Infrastructures and Management"

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Discussion: "Reflecting on Health, Well-Being and Staying Well"

c/o Josh Bailey, Bailey's Grill

6th February 2020 2pm
30-60 mins plus discussion

Bailey's Grill and Bar CIC
25 Heath Road
Ashton-in-Makerfield
WN4 9HH
United Kingdom

This interactive session will, with the audience, generate a framework to help us individually reflect upon our own health and the health of others, whether family members, or as a health / social care professional.

It might help (not essential) to bring a pen and some paper.

ERCIM News No. 119 Special theme "Smart Things Everywhere"

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Smart applications in several domains, the technological aspects and security and quality issues are the focus of the special theme of this issue.

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The next issue sounds very promising and I look f/w to receiving news of this and possibly reflecting on the content using Hodges' model. The 'Research and Innovation' section is always interesting as in this issue, even while the focus of #119 is as per the title. In addition on page 33:

"Case Case 2 – Smart Health Care: This use case employs the SEMIoTICS technologies to develop an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solution aimed at sustained independence and preserved quality of life for elders with mild cognitive impairment or mild Alzheimer’s dis-ease, with the overall goal of delaying institutionalisation: supporting both “aging in place” (individuals remain in the home of choice as long as possible) and “community care” (long-term care for people who are mentally ill, elderly, or disabled provided within the community rather than in hospitals or institutions)".

Never give up on someone ...

individual
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

group

Never give up on someone with Mental Illness – 

when 'I' is replaced with -
'We'  'illness' becomes 'Wellness'

Thanks to colleague Julie Draper - apparently this is doing the rounds on Facebook and elsewhere.

'Well-being' - a discipline unattached: enter 'informatics' the ubiquitous bed-partner

Informatics has been around for decades in many guises, associated with established academic disciplines and emerging fields as a consequence of the application of technology across society, education, work and more besides. As a result new schools of informatics emerge all the time.

The status, role, theory and practice of informatics is much debated within existing peer groups and professional associations. Prime examples include:

• medical informatics
• health informatics
• nursing informatics
• community informatics
• urban informatics
• citizen informatics
• gender informatics
• social informatics

The community informatics mail list and others have deliberated on the differences and boundaries of various schools (notably for the CI fraternity - community, urban and social informatics).

I have contributed to discussions and often thought about how to get a handle (map!) on the various schools. Inevitably I draw on Hodges' model and wonder if from the center there is a spectrum of informatics schools, something akin to a pattern made up of sectors encompassing the whole model.

Imagine my interest then when I noticed (and linked to) a workshop organized within CHI 2010 on -

Wellness Informatics (WI)

This is a great turn-of-phrase with an explanation behind it provided by Beki Grinter an organizer on her blog. Wellness and well-being are on the lips of us all at the moment. Informatics as we've seen is also quite a disciplinary bed-fellow.

I hope this workshop does take place and would love to attend. As for my thoughts and Hodges' model, I wonder when the circle will be closed?

Perhaps by that time 'informatics' will not be a discipline in which humans are the 'principal investigator'?