Professor Helen Chatterjee from University College London discusses a review of nature- and culture-based interventions and their importance for our health and wellbeing.
Visiting museums, engaging with the arts and spending time in nature are important for our wellbeing. Not everyone has access to nature or the arts, but social prescribing is used as a way to engage people with long-term health problems or mild mental health problems with them. However, there remains unequal access to community assets and more needs to be done to ensure that everyone has access to the arts and nature.
This episode focuses on a review of reviews of nature- and culture-based interventions. Although there are some notable evidence gaps, the review highlights the importance of engaging with the arts and nature for our health and wellbeing. I talk to one of the review’s authors, Professor Helen Chatterjee.
Professor Helen Chatterjee is a Professor of Biology at University College London and is currently the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Research Programme Director for Health Disparities. Helen’s research has won numerous awards and she has been awarded an MBE for services to Higher Education and Culture.
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