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Seresinhe, Chanuki Illushka, Preis, Tobias and Moat, Helen Susannah (2015) Quantifying the impact of scenic environments on health. Scientific Reports, 5 . 16899. doi:10.1038/srep16899 ISSN 2045-2322.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep16899
Abstract
Few people would deny an intuitive sense of increased wellbeing when spending time in beautiful locations. Here, we ask: can we quantify the relationship between environmental aesthetics and human health? We draw on data from Scenic-Or-Not, a website that crowdsources ratings of “scenicness” for geotagged photographs across Great Britain, in combination with data on citizen-reported health from the Census for England and Wales. We find that inhabitants of more scenic environments report better health, across urban, suburban and rural areas, even when taking core socioeconomic indicators of deprivation into account, such as income, employment and access to services. Our results provide evidence in line with the striking hypothesis that the aesthetics of the environment may have quantifiable consequences for our wellbeing.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Landscapes -- Health aspects, Well-being | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Scientific Reports | ||||||||
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2045-2322 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 25 November 2015 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 5 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 9 | ||||||||
Article Number: | 16899 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1038/srep16899 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 December 2015 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 December 2015 | ||||||||
Funder: | Research Councils UK (RCUK), Warwick Business School, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) | ||||||||
Grant number: | EP/K039830/1 (RCUK), EP/K000128/1 (EPSRC) |
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