Landscape Plants Configuring and its Air Quality Impact

Landscape Plants ◽

Clean Air ◽

Garden Plants ◽

Natural Ecology ◽

Plants Configuring can improve environmental quality, it has air purification, landscaping, maintenance of ecological balance and the promotion of the role of city-dwellers and other aspects of physical and mental health of more and more eager to return to the natural ecology of attention, study the ecological role of garden plants have become one of the hot issues of the world. This paper explored the impact Garden Plants air dynamic microbial community structure, and antibacterial effect differences between plants. To reveal the richness of different garden plants and provide scientific material in terms of the role of clean air, to provide a scientific basis for landscape design landscape designer.

The Oxford Handbook of Hope

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199399314.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Keyword(s):

Current Knowledge ◽

Comprehensive Overview ◽

Future Directions ◽

Theoretical Perspectives ◽

The Many ◽

The Impact ◽

Made In

The Oxford Handbook of Hope provides a comprehensive overview of current knowledge regarding the science and practice of hope. Hope has long been a topic of interest to philosophers and the general public, but it was only in recent decades that hope became a focus of psychological science. Rick Snyder defined hope as a cognitive trait that helps individuals to identify and pursue goals and consists of two components: pathways, the perceived capacity to identify strategies necessary to achieve goals, and agency, the willpower or motivation to pursue those pathways to achieve goals. Hope has become one of most robust and promising topics in the burgeoning field of positive psychology. This book reviews the progress that has been made in the past 25 years regarding the origins and influence of hope. Topics covered include current theoretical perspectives on how best to define hope and how it is distinct from related constructs, current best practices for measuring and quantifying hope, interventions and strategies for promoting hope across different settings and the lifespan, the impact that hope has on many dimensions and domains of physical and mental health, and the many ways and contexts in which hope promotes resilience and positive functioning. Experts in the field both review what is currently known about the role of hope in different domains and identify topics and questions that can help to guide the next decade of research. The handbook concludes with a collaborative vision on the future directions of the science of hope.

Later School Start Time: The Impact of Sleep on Academic Performance and Health in the Adolescent Population

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17072574 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (7) ◽

pp. 2574 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Valentina Alfonsi ◽

Serena Scarpelli ◽

Aurora D’Atri ◽

Giacomo Stella ◽

Luigi De Gennaro

Keyword(s):

Learning Ability ◽

Treatment Programs ◽

Sleep Patterns ◽

Start Time ◽

Impaired Sleep ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship ◽

Chronic Sleep

The crucial role of sleep in physical and mental health is well known, especially during the developmental period. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in examining the relationship between sleep patterns and school performance in adolescents. At this stage of life, several environmental and biological factors may affect both circadian and homeostatic regulation of sleep. A large part of this population does not experience adequate sleep, leading to chronic sleep restriction and/or disrupted sleep–wake cycles. Studies investigating the effects of different sleep–wake schedules on academic achievement showed that impaired sleep quality and quantity are associated with decreased learning ability and compromised daytime functioning. This review focuses on the most recent studies that evaluated the effects of modified school start time on sleep patterns and related outcomes. Moreover, based on the available empirical evidence, we intend to propose a direction for future studies targeted to implement prevention or treatment programs by modifying sleep timing.

THE ROLE OF SENSE OF COMMUNITY IN CHANGING THE HEALTH-PROMOTING EFFECT OF BUILT ENVIRONMENT: A COMMUNITY SURVEY

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igz038.1031 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. S278-S279

Author(s):

Jennifer Y M Tang ◽

Cheryl Chui ◽

Tuen Yi Chiu ◽

Rebecca Chiu ◽

Vivian W Lou ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Built Environment ◽

Physical Health ◽

Sense Of Community ◽

Subjective Feeling ◽

Outdoor Spaces ◽

Outdoor Space ◽

Abstract Previous research that studies the impact of built environment on health often attribute the enabling effects of environment on physical activity participation and opportunities for social interaction. Few studies have explored how the role of subjective feeling, such as the feeling of connectedness with the community, affects the association between built environment and physical and mental health. We conducted a cross-sectional survey with 2,247 residents aged 50 years or above in five districts in Hong Kong. We tested the mediation effect of sense of community in the relationship between physical environment and health using the path analysis. We administered a questionnaire to assess the residents’ perceived age-friendliness of outdoor spaces and buildings in the district. We used the Brief Sense of Community Scale and the 12-item Short-form Health Survey to measure sense of community and physical and mental health. We found that age-friendliness of outdoor spaces was modestly correlated with mental health (r = 0.10, P < 0.001) but not with physical health (r = 0.02, P = 0.4), whereas age-friendliness of buildings correlated with both (r = 0.05, P = 0.01; r = 0.06, P = 0.004). Sense of community mediated 25.9% of the total effect between outdoor space and physical health, 20.4% between outdoor space and mental health, and 42.5% between service and building on physical health. To conclude, sense of community was a partial mediator of the environment-health relationship. Future design of built environment should take into consideration its potential influence on sense of community and health.

Analyzing a community worker’s stress during the COVID-19 pandemic in China

Kybernetes ◽

10.1108/k-10-2020-0679 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Ping Gui ◽

Xiaotong Ji ◽

Yanlan Mei ◽

Zhicheng Quan

Keyword(s):

Organizational Climate ◽

Stress Responses ◽

Psychological Capital ◽

Stress Factors ◽

Community Governance ◽

Content Type ◽

The Impact ◽

Moderating Role

Purpose Community governance plays an important role in the prevention and control of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in China. Community workers, the main executors in community governance, experience a huge amount of stress, which affects their physical and mental health. Thus, it is crucial to pay more attention to the stressors and stress responses of community workers and propose strategies to alleviate such responses. This paper aims to analyze the work stress of community workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Design/methodology/approach Based on a questionnaire survey of 602 community workers during COVID-19 in China, the four main stressors and 14 stress factors of community workers were identified and six factors at three levels of stress responses were defined. A stress analysis model is proposed that tests the mediating role of psychological capital and the moderating role of organizational climate. Findings The results show that stressors influence stress responses through the moderating role of psychological capital, organizational climate plays a negative mediator role between stressors and psychological capital and the main stressors for community workers are work, safety and performance stress. Originality/value This paper contributes to existing research because it offers suggestions for reducing the impact of stress on the community workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, it can promote the control and prevention of the COVID-19.

Try to Talk about the Role of Landscape Plants in Urban Garden

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.955-959.4029 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 955-959 ◽

pp. 4029-4033

Author(s):

Tao Peng ◽

Bai Bing Yang ◽

Yan Zhang

Keyword(s):

Ecological Environment ◽

Urban Gardens ◽

Urban Garden ◽

Spiritual Civilization ◽

Landscape Plants ◽

Garden Plants ◽

Garden Plant ◽

Ecological Environment Protect

All aspects discussed in garden plants in urban gardens. Garden plant is beautifying the environment, improve the ecological environment, protect the environment, and enhance the role of spiritual civilization construction and so on.

The Effect of Odour Valence and Odour Detection Threshold on the Withholding and Cancellation of Reach-to-Press Responses

Chemosensory Perception ◽

10.1007/s12078-021-09292-5 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Javier Albayay ◽

Umberto Castiello ◽

Valentina Parma

Keyword(s):

Response Inhibition ◽

Detection Threshold ◽

Threshold Levels ◽

Initial Release ◽

Clean Air ◽

Main Components ◽

Task Irrelevant ◽

The Impact ◽

Healthy Participants

Abstract Introduction Withholding uninitiated actions and cancelling ongoing ones are two main components of response inhibition, a key element of the executive control. Inhibitory performance is sensitive to emotional contexts elicited by subliminal and supraliminal visual material. However, whether stimuli from other sensory modalities, such as odours, would equally modulate response inhibition remains unclear. Here, we aimed to assess the effect of task-irrelevant odours as a function of their valence and threshold on both action withholding and action cancellation of reach-to-press movements. Method Thirty-two healthy participants performed a Go/No-Go task that included the presentation of pleasant (orange) and unpleasant (trimethyloxazole) odour primes at supra- and sub-threshold levels; clean air was included as a control condition. The reach-to-press responses were composed of an initial release phase and a subsequent reaching phase. Results Only the supra-threshold pleasant (vs. control) odour impaired action withholding. Moreover, the pleasant (vs. control) odour—presented at both sub- and supra-threshold levels—elicited more accurate Go responses, whereas the sub- and supra-threshold pleasant and unpleasant (vs. control) odours triggered faster responses in the release phase. Additionally, only the supra-threshold pleasant (vs. unpleasant) odour impaired action cancellation in the reaching phase. Furthermore, reaching responses were slower following the supra-threshold unpleasant (vs. control) odour. Conclusions Our findings extend the sparse literature on the impact of odour stimuli on goal-directed behaviour, highlighting the role of both odour valence and threshold in the modulation of response inhibition. Implications Determining the mechanisms by which odour stimuli modulate response inhibition lays the foundations for research on odour-triggered disinhibition.

The Role of Fathers in Child and Family Health

10.1007/978-3-030-75645-1_2 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 15-30

Author(s):

Michael W. Yogman ◽

Amelia M. Eppel

Keyword(s):

Father Involvement ◽

Child Outcomes ◽

Family Health ◽

Medical Community ◽

Childhood And Adolescence ◽

Paternity Leave ◽

Health And Development ◽

AbstractFathers’ involvement with their children has a substantial influence on both their children’s and their families’ health and development. Studied effects on child outcomes are reviewed within each phase of a child’s development (prenatal, infancy, childhood and adolescence). In addition, the impact of the physical and mental health of fathers on the health of their children is considered. This review advocates for policies enhancing father involvement, accessible and more extensive paternity leave, and increased attention to paternal postpartum depression by the medical community.

The impact of retirement on physical, mental health and wellbeing

European Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.765 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽

Author(s):

A Odone ◽

B Frascella ◽

G Vigezzi ◽

G Gaetti ◽

V Gianfredi

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Conceptual Framework ◽

Population Ageing ◽

Health And Wellbeing ◽

Relevant Evidence ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Complex Relationships ◽

Abstract Population ageing presents both challenges and opportunities for societies around the world. Increasing statutory retirement age and limiting exits to early retirement are frequent policy responses to population ageing, but this is unlikely to have the desired impact if the complex relationships that link work, retirement and health remains unknown. In this context, we designed and are currently conducting the multi-partner project on pension reforms and spatial-temporal patterns in healthy ageing, funded by Fondazione Cariplo. The project involves a multi-disciplinary research team from University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Bocconi University and the Unit of Epidemiology of the Regional Health Service of ASL TO3. In this first presentation we will first describe the project design, its general aim and specific objectives, then we will present a proposed conceptual framework on the association between retirement and health and its determinants. The framework is the first deliverable of the project and is the results of a comprehensive review of the available evidence and consultation with experts in the field. In particular we conducted a scoping review to retrieve, pool and critically appraise the relevant evidence on the impact of retirement and transition to retirement on physical and mental health and their determinants. We summarized the evidence collected in a conceptual framework that attempt to quantify how health and retirement are bi-directionally linked, how health is central to the timing of retirement, how labor-associated determinants condition employment cessation, how and retirement have varying effects on risk factors for physical and mental health and the role of confounding factors and mediators. Towards the end of the presentation we will outline an extensive stakeholder mapping carried out for the purposes of the project at the national and European level

How Far Up the River? Criminal Justice Contact and Health Outcomes

Social Currents ◽

10.1177/2329496519870216 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 29-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

April D. Fernandes

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Criminal Justice ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Low Level ◽

Nuanced Understanding ◽

Criminal Justice Contact ◽

The Impact ◽

The Continuum

Research has shown negative health outcomes from felony imprisonment. The conditions that create and exacerbate physical and mental health outcomes on the felony side—exposure to disease, lack of health care, and stress—are reflected in other less severe forms of criminal justice contact. Given that the low-level contact has grown along with prison incarceration, the health effects of less severe forms of criminal justice contact should be investigated. Using 10 waves from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 ([NLSY97), this project explores the impact on self-reported physical and mental health from the continuum of contact, namely, an arrest, conviction, and jail sentence. The results show that low-level forms of contact negatively affect both physical and mental health throughout the continuum of contact. The role of the type of conviction is investigated, providing a more nuanced understanding of how points of contact operate on essential outcomes such as physical and mental health.

Interventions of Unani medicine for maintenance of health with special reference to air quality: an evidence-based review

Reviews on Environmental Health ◽

10.1515/reveh-2021-0116 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Shaheen Akhlaq ◽

Shabnam Anjum Ara ◽

Bilal Ahmad ◽

Mohammad Fazil ◽

Usama Akram ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Air Quality ◽

Human Health ◽

Indoor Air ◽

Air Purification ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Extensive Literature ◽

Unani Medicine ◽

Clean Air ◽

Pharmacologically Active ◽

Abstract Objectives This article aims to discuss the impact of air quality on human health, measures to achieve the goal of good indoor air quality and proposed benefits of interventions of Unani Medicine with an evidence-based approach. Content The significance of air quality on the health of the community cannot be denied. Recent evidences from WHO illustrated data on severe air pollutants and their impacts on human health ranges from minor upper respiratory irritation to chronic respiratory ailments including lung carcinoma and heart disease associated with premature mortality and reduced life expectancy. In Unani Medicine, air has been included in the list of factors, which are six in number and play the central role in prevention of diseases and maintenance of health. Air is considered as the medium of most of the extrinsic factors such as chemical and biological pollutants affecting health and their exposure results in short and long-term health issues. The literature of Unani Medicine proposes many simple and effective measures, which help to improve indoor and outdoor air quality. The goal of outdoor clean air is achieved through implementation of measures to tackle the source of pollution, while indoor clean air is attained through various means e.g., fumigation with herbal drugs. Hence, an extensive literature survey on Unani reserve was conducted to collect information about the concept of air discussed under the heading of six essential factors and its implication in prevention of diseases and maintenance of health. Further, research databases such as Pub Med, Google Scholar, and Science-Direct were broadly searched for evidence on the efficacy of herbals mentioned in Unani literature for the indoor air purification and subsequent air quality improvement. Summary and outlook Recent studies showed good air quality leads to decrease in mortality, particularly of respiratory and cardiovascular deaths whereas poor air quality results in a variety of diseases. Unani scholars prescribed several regimens such as Bukhoor (Fumigation), Sa’oot (Nasal instillation) and use of Abeer (Perfumes) and Nadd (Incense) for the improvement of air quality. Likewise various herbal fumigants and sprays containing drugs like mī’a sā’ila (Liquidambar orientalis Mill.), mastagi (Pistacia lentiscus L.), mushk (Moschus moschiferus L.), loban (Styrax benzoides W. G. Craib), ābnoos (Diospyros ebenum J. Koenig ex Retz), zā’fran (Crocus sativus L.) and sirka (vinegar) etc. has been well explained and used exclusively for air purification and improvement of AQI. Therefore, in the present scenario of altered air quality, we forward certain measures described in Unani system of medicine for health promotion and protection. Scientific evidence on several drugs reveal the presence of a number of pharmacologically active substances, which may provide a new approach into the purification of air.