To accelerate the economic and social impact of NERC science within human health and wellbeing, by improving and targeting knowledge exchange.

主要目的是什么？它将把企业、科学家和卫生专业人员聚集在一起，分享他们的知识，并形成一个新的项目伙伴关系。该项目将同时为自然的价值和管理提供新的见解，并改善人们的健康。这是在增加自然科学研究的社会和经济影响这一更广泛目标的背景下进行的。研究什么?相关主题包括：生态学；进化和共同进化发生的方式；微生物在土壤中的作用；动物行为的方式；以及大自然提供“服务”的方式，比如防洪、害虫控制和碳储存。如果是环境研究，那为什么要关注健康呢？健康对我们的幸福和经济至关重要。英国国内生产总值的10%用于卫生和社会保健；这种规模意味着，对于那些能够找到降低总成本方法的人来说，存在着商机。说我们知道大自然可以改善健康是不够的；我们需要知道如何以及为什么，出于生态原因以及社会或经济原因。这个项目实际上包括什么？确切的形式将随着工作的进行而确定，但“绿色处方”一词涵盖了医生——全科医生和临床医生——让病人与自然接触并监测效果的一系列可能的干预措施。它可以被理解为一个疗程，或一个预防活动。为什么要让自然科学家参与进来？答案可以分为三部分。首先，人们与自然接触，无论是自己还是通过组织，都是每天都会发生的事情。但越来越多的健康人士开始将“绿色处方”视为一种治疗方案。他们需要从研究科学家那里知道什么最有效。大自然对健康的益处是一种微妙而复杂的关系的结果，它不仅仅来自于置身其中，而是来自于理解它，以及以不同的方式与之互动。其次，反之亦然；那些建模和计算自然对健康价值的自然科学家需要了解这种复杂性，以改进他们的研究。所以专业知识需要双向转移。第三，这个问题还有另一个方面没有得到太多关注；增加绿色处方的生态影响、生态系统的变化及其提供的“服务”是什么？是否存在风险或可能出现的问题？假设是“一切都好”，而在科学和政策方面，假设都需要受到挑战。人们与自然的互动会有什么不同？同样，让想法在初始阶段自由发挥是很重要的，但这可能涉及到：与科学家合作；户外咨询和治疗；以及与运动监测器绑定的自然应用程序。有哪些例子，商业潜力是什么？目前，我们有全科医生使用“自然健康服务”让病人接触社区资源的例子。它是临时的，其影响——无论是对自然还是对健康——都没有得到很好的捕捉。几乎所有的环保志愿活动都不涉及科学或健康方面的投入。通过封闭这个圈子，利用科学研究人员（不仅是自然科学，还包括社会科学和医学科学；我们希望尽可能多地跨学科合作）以及医生的见解，可以改善现有供应商的业务，甚至创造新的经济活动，例如通过移动电子设备和数字媒体创造的机会。例如，Surfers Against Sewage正在开发一款应用程序，为健康研究人员提供有关肝炎感染的实时流行病学数据。这也是自然科学家可以从中受益的活动，也是我认为这个项目可以提供的东西。

What is the main aim? It is to bring businesses, scientists and health professionals together to share their knowledge, and to form a new project partnership. That project will simultaneously provide new insights in the value and management of nature, and improve people's health. This is done in the context of the broader objective of increasing the social and economic impact of natural science research.What research?Some relevant topics include: ecology; the ways in which evolution and co-evolution occur; the function of microbes in the soil; the ways in which animals behave; and the ways in which nature provides 'services' like flood defence, pest control and carbon storage.If it's about environmental research, then why focus on health? Health is central to our happiness and to our economy. 10% of UK GDP is spent on health and social care; the sheer scale of this means that there are business opportunities for those who can find ways to reduce overall costs. Saying that we know nature can improve health is not enough; we need to know how and why, for ecological reasons as well as social or economic ones.What will the project actually involve?The precise form will be defined as the work proceeds, but the term 'green prescriptions' covers a whole range of possible interventions where doctors - GPs and clinicians - get patients to engage with nature and monitor the effects. It can be understood as a course of treatment, or a preventative activity. Why involve natural scientists?The answer is in three parts. Firstly, people engaging with nature, - either just on their own or through organisations, is an everyday occurrence. But increasingly people involved in health are looking at 'green prescriptions' as a course of treatment. They need to know, from research scientists, what works best. The health benefit of nature is the result of a subtle and complex relationship, and it does not derive merely from being in it, but by understanding it, and from interacting within it in different ways. Secondly, vice versa; those natural scientists who model and calculate the value to health from nature need to understand this complexity to improve their studies. So expertise needs to be transferred in both directions. Thirdly, there is another dimension to this which has not been looked at much; what are the ecological impacts, the changes to ecosystems and the 'services' they provide, of increasing green prescriptions? Are there risks or possible problems? The assumption is that it is 'all good', and in both science and policy, assumptions need to be challenged. How would, or could, people interact with nature differently? Again it's important to let ideas run freely at this initial stage, but this might involve such things as: working with scientists; outdoor counselling and therapy; and nature apps tied to exercise monitors. What examples are there, and what is the business potential?At the moment we have examples of GPs using the 'Natural Health Service' to put patients in touch with community resources. It is ad hoc, and the impact - whether on nature or on health - is not well captured. Nearly all conservation volunteering does not involve either scientific or health input. By closing the circle and using insight from scientific researchers (and only natural science, but also social and medical science; we want to join up across disciplines as much as possible), as well as from doctors, there is scope for improving the business of existing providers, and even creating new economic activity, for example through the opportunities created by mobile electronic devices and digital media. For example, Surfers Against Sewage are creating an app that provides health researchers with epidemiological data on hepatitis infections in real time. This is the kind of activity that natural scientists could benefit from too, and the kind of thing I think this project can deliver.