{"id":3476,"date":"2019-07-01T08:51:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T08:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","slug":"how-green-spaces-could-improve-your-childs-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/01\/how-green-spaces-could-improve-your-childs-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"How Green Spaces Could Improve Your Child&#8217;s Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By health 24<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Living near a park, forest or other green\nspace may protect your children&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health24.com\/Mental-Health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mental health<\/a>&nbsp;later\nin life, a Danish study suggests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children who grow up in these natural\nsurroundings have up to a 55% lower risk of developing a mental disorder as an\nadult, researchers found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ensuring access to green space and enhancing\nopportunities for a diverse range of uses, especially in densifying urban\nenvironments, could be an important tool for managing and minimizing the global\nburden of disease increasingly dominated by psychiatric disorders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The natural world appears to benefit both the\nbody and the mind in growing children\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health24.com\/Mental-Health\/News\/how-green-spaces-could-improve-your-childs-mental-health-20190630-2\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By health 24 Living near a park, forest or other green space may protect your children&#8217;s&nbsp;mental health&nbsp;later in life, a Danish study suggests. Children who grow up in these natural&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}