Anna Cooper Reid tells us that PaRx is breaking ground as Canada's first national, evidence-based nature prescription program. Two hours a week is all it takes.
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PaRx program what it is. Evidence based and national (Canada)
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How evidence will help further research: unique provider code & prescription pad compatible with electronic patient record in that province.
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Will be able to evaluate how well it works
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What prescription looks like is up to the patient (a meaningful connection with nature is individual).
Time required in green space: 2 hours/week at 20 minute intervals
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climate/covid. People who are connected to nature are more likely to protect it. We can thank the planet when we get out in nature.
23 minute mark: the future is exciting, providers are excited, patients are involved, PaRx will launch in other provinces, and will be available for use in licensed health care providers (nurses, social work, pharmacy, physicians, occupational therapy, and physiotherapy) undergraduate course content.
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one thing listeners can take away, have a conversation with your health care provider. If you want to iand my website nform your provider go to the website: www.parkprescriptions.ca
Here you will find a tab for patients and a tab for prescribers.
Also organized according to older and younger age groups, heart health, respiratory heath.
Graphics and easy to understand.
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Everything on the website is linked to research. All the evidence in there. You can explore the studies. If you want to reach out to Anna or ask questions you can do on the website (ask for Anna).
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Wrap up with Verla. Please check out my book and workbook Take Back Your Outside Mindset: Live Longer, Stress Less, and Control Your Chronic Illness and my website treesmendus.com for more practical tips, information and resources. As we know getting outside does not require a trip to the pharmacy, but to your local green space where you can soak in the positive and overlapping benefits of green space.
For peer reviewed research on how your time spent in green space can change your mindset, balance your nervous system and your heart rate please go to my website https://treesmendus.com and check out my books Take Back Your Outside Mindset: Live Longer, Stress Less, and Control Your Chronic Illness and Optimize Your Heart Rate: Balance Your Mind and Body With Green Space