一个关于绿色,蓝色和灰色空间,生物多样性,微生物群和人类健康的观点
John D Potter1, Collin Brooks2, Geoffrey Donovan3
1Research Centre for Hauora and Health, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
The Science of the total environment
|June 12, 2023
概括
接触自然,包括绿色和蓝色空间,提供了显著的健康益处. 城市环境 (灰色空间) 通过限制与自然接触并可能损害福祉,构成健康风险.
科学领域:
- 环境健康 环境健康
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 生态生态学 生态生态学
背景情况:
- 人类越来越多地侵犯自然息地,并与野生空间脱离,这对生态系统产生了深远的影响,并引发了关于人类健康的问题.
- 虽然对野生动物,污染和气候的影响是显而易见的,但对人类的直接健康后果仍未得到充分研究.
研究的目的:
- 审查证据,将暴露于绿色和蓝色空间与健康改善联系起来.
- 为了对比自然环境 (绿色和蓝色空间) 与城市环境 (灰色空间) 的健康影响.
- 探索包括生物多样性和微生物群在内的假设,解释这些关联,并讨论暴露评估挑战.
主要方法:
- 文献综述综合绿色,蓝色和灰色空间暴露和健康结果的证据.
- 讨论提出的假设 (例如生物多样性,微生物群) 和暴露途径 (空气,土壤,水).
- 对环境健康研究当前的暴露评估工具进行批判性评估.
主要成果:
- 有证据表明,接近自然环境 (绿色和蓝色空间) 对人类健康有有益影响.
- 城市景观 (灰色空间) 与健康风险和减少对自然的接触有关.
- 生物多样性假设和微生物群的作用被强调为了解健康影响的关键领域.
结论:
- 通过政策干预恢复环境平衡对公共卫生至关重要,即使不完全理解机制.
- 需要进一步的研究来完善环境健康的暴露评估方法.
- 整合不同的观点,包括土著观点,可能会丰富我们对人类与环境关系的理解.
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