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Green care : for human therapy, social innovation, rural economy, and education /

"Today, in a global level, the health sector and social services need alternatives to traditional medical treatment, therapy, rehabilitation, and work training. Green care is the use of agricultural farms and the biotic and abiotic elements of nature for health and therapy-promoting interventio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gallis, Christos
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Nova Biomedical, [2013]
Colección:Public health in the 21st century series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is Green care? Introduction, history, and origins / Christos Gallis
  • Green care: origins and activities / Joe Sempik and Rachel Bragg
  • Explaining Green care: theories and constructs / Joe Sempik and Anna A. Adevi
  • Introducing Green care research / Dorit Haubenhofer, Luisa Demattio and Sigrid Geber
  • Benefits of animal-assisted interventions for different target groups in a Green care context / Bente Berget, Ingeborg Pedersen, Marie-Jose Enders-Slegers, Andrea Betz, Silke Scholl and Geza Kovács
  • Effects of Green care farms on different client groups: experiences from the Netherlands
  • Therapeutic horticulture in a Green care context for clinical depression: cognitive benefits and active components
  • Benefits of forest and forest environment on human health in a Green care context: an introduction to forest medicine / Qing Li
  • Social aspects of Green care / Chris Leck, Dominic Upton and Nick Evans
  • Policies and strategies of Green care in Europe / Thomas van Elsen and Roberto Finuola
  • Political cultures reflected in the social recognition of new practices: a comparison of Green care farming in Austria and the Netherlands / Renate Renner and Dorit Karla Haubenhofer
  • Structure and economics of Green care in the Netherlands / Gabe Venema, Harold van der Meulen, Wim Zaalmink, Aide Roest, Dora Lakner and Jakob Jager
  • Learning on Green care farms / Dorit Haubenhofer, Christos Gallis, Frances Harris, Linda Jolly, Michael Kaufmann, Erling Krogh, Kirsti Salo, Johanna Schockemöhle, Pia Smeds and Georg Wiesinger
  • The development and diversity of Green care across Europe / Jan Hassink
  • Green care in Japan / Masahiro Toyoda
  • Green care: farming for health in the USA / Paula Diane Relf.