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Patrick O'Connor, Associate Professor in Natural Resource Economics, University of Adelaide

‘A dose of nature’: each time you visit a national park, you save the health budget almost $100

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Visiting a national park is good for our health and wellbeing. But the benefits are not shared equally across the community. Often the people who need it most are least able to access a high-quality dose of nature.

We wanted to quantify the benefit to the health system, in dollar terms. After all, health budgets are steadily growing while urban green spaces with high biodiversity are often degraded and squeezed by development.

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