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"Visiting a national park is good for our health and wellbeing. But the
benefits are not shared equally across the community. Often the people who need
it most are least able to access a high-quality dose of nature.
We wanted to quantify the benefit to the health system, in dollar terms. After
all, health budgets are steadily growing while urban green spaces with high
biodiversity are often degraded and squeezed by development.
Our new research puts a dollar value on the health benefits of visits to
national parks within reach of the city of Adelaide in South Australia. We
estimate every visit saves the health budget almost A$100 ($96).
Scaled up across the country, this means the 22 million day trips to national
parks in 2019 could shave more than $2.1 billion off the nation’s health bill
every year. This estimate assumes visits and benefits are similar across the
country. It can pay to look after nature."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics