wellbeing - LJN Blog Posts - Landscape Juice Network2024-03-28T09:31:50Zhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/wellbeingHealth and Wellbeing at Work eventhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/health-and-wellbeing-at-work-event2013-02-20T14:04:52.000Z2013-02-20T14:04:52.000ZLandscape Juicehttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/LandscapeJuice<div><p>About The Event<br />
5-6 March 2013 National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham</p>
<p>Now in its 7th successful year, <strong><a href="http://www.healthatwork2013.co.uk/" target="_blank">Health and Wellbeing at Work</a></strong> is all about improving the health and wellbeing of work-aged people. The conference and exhibition will provide you with new ideas and resources to ensure your employees are fit and healthy, return to work quickly following absence and stay in work. It also looks at pioneering strategies for getting vulnerable people into the workplace and enabling them to fulfil their potential. Profiling national developments, service innovations, examples of best practice and the latest research, it provides an unrivalled learning platform that will energise and inspire you.</p>
<p>Why you should attend:</p>
<p>Learn from success stories from both the public and private sector<br />
Gain new ideas, update your skills and meet your professional educational requirements<br />
Enhance your job role<br />
Network with colleagues from small, medium and large organisations<br />
Choose from 20 pick and mix conference programmes<br />
Gain hands-on experience at the live Wellbeing Theatres<br />
See a wealth of new products and services with over 150 exhibiting organisations</p>
</div>Landscapes for health & wellbeinghttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/landscapes-for-health-wellbeing2012-12-02T08:00:00.000Z2012-12-02T08:00:00.000Zgayle@greenstonehttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/gaylegreenstone<div><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;">Awareness of landscapes for health and wellbeing is growing across government and throughout the healthcare and landscape profession. During the 66th meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations this year, the socio-economic challenge facing the world of non-communicable disease was discussed for the first time. As we know landscape is an effective component in healthcare</span> planning and design.<br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;"/><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;"/><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;">Appropriately designed landscaped and urban settings are a powerful and cost effective tool in the fight to reduce the incidence of non communicable threats to health and well being such as depression, type 2 diabetes, obesity.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;"/><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;"/><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;">I've just submitted an abstract to the World Design and Health Congress for a paper on using landscape and urban design for health and well being. As landscape professionals we have a real opportunity to create lasting positive change within our communities. Greenstone Design UK is a <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;">leading</span> landscape-led health and wellbeing research and design consultancy working with government, planners and developers.<br/></span></p></div>