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What communities can do

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• Ecotherapy
• Green Gym
• Healthy Living Projects
• Healthy eating projects
• Health and sustainability Fairs
• Walking for Health initiatives and Community walking projects

Campaigns

Why it matters

The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health in its broader sense in its 1948 constitution as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." This definition has been subject to controversy, in particular as lacking operational value and because of the problem created by use of the word "complete". Other definitions have been proposed, among which a recent definition that correlates health and personal satisfaction.

The term "healthy" is also widely used in the context of many types of non-living organizations and their impacts for the benefit of humans, such as in the sense of healthy communities, healthy cities or healthy environments. In addition to health care interventions and a person's surroundings, a number of other factors are known to influence the health status of individuals, including their background, lifestyle, and economic, social conditions, and spirituality; these are referred to as "determinants of health." Studies have shown that high levels of stress can affect human health. ^W

Mental health

The World Health Organization describes mental health as "a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community". Mental Health is not just the absence of mental illness. ^W

Resources

Citizens data initiative

See also

• local information can be found, or shared, via our many location pages
• Arts, sport and culture
• Cycling, sustainable community action
• Environment quality
• Food, sustainable community action
• Open spaces
• Social inclusion
• Trees, woodland and forest

Interwiki links

Wikipedia: Health, Ecopsychology, Green exercise, Green Gym, Health impact assessment, Environmental justice, Transnational movement networks

External links

• Health Care Without Harm, works to improve the public health by reducing the environmental impacts of the health care industry. ^W

Community Action for Sustainability

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