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Connecting New Orleans Children to Nature: The Role of the Physicians - Case 2
Physicians at Louisiana State University’s Pediatrics Department are being introduced to an evolving body of scientific evidence that “green time” can result in better health and social outcomes for youth. Using a train-the-trainer model, physicians are learning about the balance of “green time” and media use and methods of delivery of these recommendations in their everyday clinical care of their patients. This presentation will describe the successes and lessons learned from this institution’s efforts to implement NEEF’s Children and Nature Initiative: Rx for Outdoor Activity including feedback from both health care providers and patients.
Learning Areas:
Clinical medicine applied in public healthLearning Objectives:
Explain the project and describe project outcomes.
Keyword(s): Child Health, Community Health Programs
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a pediatrician and the director of Healthy Lifestyle Program at Louisiana State University. I am implementing a program to encourage children to spend more time outdoors in nature by writing prescriptions for outdoors. I am also training other healthcare providers to do the same.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.