Access to Urban Woodlands Linked With Lower Use of Antidepressants
Reported byYale Environment 360 ↗·Sourced by Goodlede
Scotland's Woods In and Around Towns program, which has revitalized nearly 30,000 acres of urban woodlands since 2005, showed in a study of 129,000 people that living within a 10-minute walk of accessible woodland reduced antidepressant prescriptions by 10 percent and anti-anxiety prescriptions by 6 percent.
The study is observational; it demonstrates association between proximity to woodlands and lower medication prescriptions, not causation.
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