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Role of Parks in Promoting the Health of Children and Communities

Role of Parks in Promoting the Health of Children and Communities. Michael B. Edwards, Ph.D. Pennington Childhood Obesity and Public Health Conference Baton Rouge, Louisiana – April 1, 2014. Children’s Health a Concern in the U.S. Are we doing the right things to promote health?.

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Role of Parks in Promoting the Health of Children and Communities

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  1. Role of Parks in Promoting the Health of Children and Communities Michael B. Edwards, Ph.D. Pennington Childhood Obesity and Public Health Conference Baton Rouge, Louisiana – April 1, 2014

  2. Children’s Health a Concern in the U.S.

  3. Are we doing the right things to promote health? New England Healthcare Institute (2005)

  4. Parks (and Recreation) provide opportunities for health promotion

  5. The recreation movement of the 19th Century was a public health movement (Godbey et al., 2005)

  6. Two key objectives: Safe places to play and the “green lungs” of the city

  7. Parks are the most common place that people are physically active(Cohen et al., 2005)

  8. The effect of a walk in a park is similar to that of the most widely prescribed medications for ADHDTaylor et al., 2002

  9. Green space is associated with reduced social conflict and aggressionKuo, 2010

  10. Urban parks create natural spaces for social interaction and cohesionRodriguez, 1996; Peters et al., 2010

  11. Community gardens reduce stress, promote cohesion, and provide access to fresh produceGiles, 2006

  12. In urban areas, contact with nature is often only available in parksMaller (2009)

  13. Parks provide locally-generated ecosystem services shown to improve health and quality-of-lifeBolund & Hunhammer, 1999

  14. Disparities in Access Wolch et al., 2005

  15. Disparities in Quality Low-income Census Tracts contained significantly more parks, but had fewer parks with playgrounds and more quality concerns per park. Vaughan et al., 2013

  16. Conceptualizing parks and their effects • People’s conceptions of parks, the expectations they bring to them, and the ways they use them vary greatly according to age, gender, ethnicity, and other factors. • Howard Frumkin, 2003

  17. Most people in parks are sedentaryCohen et al., 2005

  18. Self-selection and unintended consequences

  19. Availability of parks may be less important in rural communitiesParks et al., 2003; Babey et al., 2008

  20. Adapted from Bedimo-Rung, Mowen & Cohen, 2005

  21. Community systems approach • More than 40% of recreation programs in LA are not in parks. They are in recreation centers, local schools, non-profit organizations, and churches (Dahmann et al., 2010)

  22. Community engagement

  23. Community Partnerships

  24. Systems Solutions

  25. Questions?

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