Exploring the co-benefits of environmental volunteering for human and planetary health promotion.
Rebecca PatrickClaire Henderson-WilsonMatthew EbdenPublished in: Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals (2021)
Environmental volunteering has the potential to address key determinants of health - social inclusion, employment and education. From a planetary health perspective, there are multiple co-benefits of human-environmental interaction arising from environmental volunteering. Environmental volunteering is a planetary health strategy that could be incorporated into community-based health promotion. SO WHAT?: Health promotion has a mandate to act on ecological determinants of health. Environmental volunteering is an untapped resource for community-based health promotion and for achieving planetary health goals.