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The IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 is a landmark
global forum on parks and protected areas held onceeer! 10 !ears" The Congress #ill be held in $!dne!%
&ustralia from 12 ' 1( Noember 2014% on the theme
Parks, Planet, People: inspiring solutions.The Congress program consists of ) concurrent
streams% one of #hich is Improving Health and Well-
being: Healthy Parks Healthy People"
*or a sustainable and lieable future% the
#ellbeing of all societies depends on
health! ecos!stems" Parks can consere
health! ecos!stems and improe our health
and #ellbeing"
The Healthy Parks Healthy People stream
#ill e+plore the dierse health benefits
proided b! parks including medicines%
disease regulation% lielihood support%
mental and spiritual #ellbeing% and settings
for ph!sical actiit!" The stream #ill also
e+plore the concept of health! parks in
arious conte+ts"
The Healthy Parks Healthy People$tream is
being led b! Parks ,ictoria and the U$
National Park $erice"
Improving health and well-being:
Healthy Parks Healthy People
Healthy Parks Healthy People
Stream Legacies
$cience plan and research agenda IUCN -est Practice .uidelines / Healthy
Parks Healthy People
Healthy Parks Healthy PeopleCongress 2 Healthy Parks Healthy Peopleoutreach Capacit! deelopment during the
Congress and be!ond
.lobal moement for sustaining parksand human health
Polic! messages including for the ne#$ustainable eelopment .oals
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1" $hare scientific kno#ledge and traditionalkno#ledge on the health benefits mental%
ph!sical% social% economic% and spiritual of
contact #ith nature"
2" Identif! kno#ledge gaps in Healthy ParksHealthy People research and bring together
sectors for collaboratie solutions"
3" ighlight practical e+periences aboutconnecting people and parks ecos!stems
for health co/benefits"
4" .enerate ke! polic! messages on health!
parks ecos!stems% health! people that are
releant to global and regional polic!
makers"
5" -uild a global coalition to promote the alue
of parks for human health and support the
application of the Healthy Parks Healthy
Peopleapproach across sectors"
6" 7a+imi8e opportunities for the health and
park sectors to #ork together to delier
Healthy Parks Healthy Peopleinitiaties"
Healthy Parks Healthy People
Stream AimsHealth Program
Content
Ph!sical health 7ental health Cultural and spiritual #ell/being Communit! #ell/being 7edicines / traditional and modern isease regulation and the 9ne ealth
approach
Parks Program
Content
$tate of the Parks approaches 7anagement actions for :health! parks; Climate change% parks and health
impacts
Indigenous Communit! health and parks