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This article focuses on information specific to United Kingdom. Please see our Health and wellbeing page for a topic overview.

Green Gym

The Conservation Volunteers' Green Gym programme aims to provide people with a way to enhance their fitness and health while taking action to improve the outdoor environment. It can be seen as enabling people to get fit who would not normally attend a conventional gym or sports centre. ^W

Resources

Centre for Ageing Better, independent charitable foundation
Resources from the UK Healthy Cities Network
Sustainable development: The key to tackling health inequalities, Sustainable Development Commission, 2010

Apps for sustainability

Splashpath, find your local swimming pools

Citizens data initiative

Community Wellbeing Index. Enter your post code to get an index for your community, communitywellbeing.coop.co.uk

Networks

Network of Wellbeing

Video

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News and comment

2019

Oct 21 Environment quality UK: Air pollution is now a 'health emergency', head of NHS England warns ^[1]

Sep 11 Cambridgeshire: Mind over natter: the English town with a big mental health plan ^[2]

Jan 9 Urban sustainability UK: Urban co-design for better wellbeing and health: Healthy New Town ^[3]

2018

Prototyping a ‘Citizen Research Centre’ by Sarah Drummond, Nov 14 ^[4]

Can we radically transform the way we deliver health and social care in the UK? Feb 26 ^[5]

Somerset: The town that’s found a potent cure for illness – community, Feb 21, George Monbiot ^[6]

We need to talk about ageing – and it’s about far more than the NHS, Feb 4, John Harris ^[7]

Saving the NHS means forcing us to change the way we lead our lives, Nick Cohen, Jan 28 ^[8]

2017

Huge health gap revealed between UK’s rich and poor, Dec 23 ^[9]

Yorkshire and the Humber: Yes, This Is Britain’s Happiest Place. (It Looks Beautiful in the Rain.) Nov 13 ^[10]

Totnes: Caring Town: Fiona Ward, May 3 ^[11]

People, place and partnerships in health, May 2 ^[12]

Being poor kills – to improve public health the government must tackle inequality, Apr 10 ^[13]

2015

Health hackers: the patients taking medical innovation into their own hands, October 26 ^[14]

Top doctor: social inequality in UK costing 550 lives every day, September 10 ^[15]

External links

NHS Sustainable Development Unit

Blogs

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[1] The Independent

[2] The Guardian

[3] What Works Centre for Wellbeing

[4] Medium

[5] thersa.org

[6] The Guardian

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[8] The Guardian

[9] The Guardian

[10] ytimes.com

[11] rnearer.org

[12] sta.org.uk

[13] tfootforward.org

[14] The Guardian

[15] The Guardian

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