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

主要目标是什么？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的更广泛目标的背景下进行的。什么研究？一些相关的主题包括：生态学；进化和共同进化发生的方式；土壤中微生物的功能；动物的行为方式；以及自然提供防洪、虫害控制和碳储存等“服务”的方式。如果是关于环境研究，为什么要关注健康？健康是我们幸福和经济的核心。英国国内生产总值的10%花在了医疗和社会保健上；这一规模本身就意味着，那些能够找到降低总体成本方法的人有商业机会。仅仅说我们知道自然可以改善健康是不够的；我们需要知道，出于生态原因以及社会或经济原因，该项目是如何以及为什么会这样做的。该项目实际上将涉及什么？确切的形式将被定义为工作的进行，但“绿色处方”一词涵盖了一系列可能的干预措施，即医生-全科医生和临床医生-让患者与自然接触并监测其效果。它可以被理解为一个疗程，或者是一种预防性活动。为什么要让自然科学家参与进来呢？答案分为三个部分。首先，人们每天都在与自然打交道--无论是他们自己还是通过组织。但越来越多的健康相关人士将“绿色处方”视为一种疗程。他们需要从研究科学家那里知道什么是最有效的。大自然的健康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，而是通过理解大自然，以及通过以不同方式在大自然中相互作用而产生的。其次，反之亦然；那些对自然的健康价值进行建模和计算的自然科学家需要了解这种复杂性，以改进他们的研究。因此，专业知识需要双向转移。第三，还有另一个方面没有得到太多的研究；增加绿色处方会对生态系统及其提供的‘服务’产生怎样的生态影响？是否存在风险或可能存在的问题？我们的假设是“一切都好”，在科学和政策方面，假设都需要受到挑战。人类与自然的互动将会怎样，或者可以怎样呢？同样，在这个初始阶段，让想法自由发挥是很重要的，但这可能涉及到这样的事情：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。有什么例子，商业潜力是什么？目前，我们有全科医生使用‘自然健康服务’的例子，让患者接触到社区资源。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。几乎所有的保护志愿者都不涉及科学或健康投入。通过闭合圈子并利用科学研究人员(不仅是自然科学，还有社会科学和医学；我们希望尽可能地加入跨学科)以及医生的见解，就有机会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，反污水冲浪者组织正在开发一款应用程序，为健康研究人员提供实时的肝炎感染流行病学数据。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.