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Healthy Urban Places Seminar: How do urban green space interventions promote health behaviours?

‘How do urban green space interventions promote health behaviours? Evidence from natural experiments', hosted by guest speaker Jack Benton from The University of Manchester. Urban green space (UGS) interventions are a promising way of improving population health and wellbeing, through behavioural pathways such as physical activity, social interaction, and engagement with nature. However, robust evaluations of UGS interventions in real-world settings (‘natural experiments’) remain scarce, limiting the evidence available to inform policy and practice. In this talk, Dr Benton presents findings from his natural experiment evaluations in some of Manchester’s most deprived neighbourhoods. He also explains how these studies are strengthening the evidence base on UGS and health, while also developing new methods that address methodological weaknesses causing high risk of bias in previous natural experimental studies. Together, this research is helping to advance more rigorous and policy-relevant evaluations of UGS interventions. PHI UK Healthy Urban Places is building our knowledge of how local urban places impact health, and how this knowledge can be used to help cities become healthier and happier places to live. As part of this project, we are hosting a series of online seminars that will aim to explore a variety of research topics relating to the impact of urban environments on health by inviting guest speakers to share their research. More about PHI UK Healthy Urban Places: https://www.phiuk.org/healthy-urban-p... Future PHI UK events at: https://www.phiuk.org/news/events