Healing gardens, the term is most often applied to green spaces in hospitals and other healthcare facilities that specifically aim to improve health outcomes, patients not only realize all the stress that being in a hospital provoke but these gardens also provide a place of refuge, promote social interaction and physical activity, consequently it makes the patients heal faster, make families feel better and promote the metal health of hospital staff.
In Canada There are four major chronic diseases and about twenty percent of Canadians live with at least one of them. Cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and respiratory disease cause approximately 65% of all deaths in Canada.
Additionally, mental health disorders, including depression and anxiety, are the primary cause for workplace disability. Moreover, 33% of direct health- care expenditures in Canada can be attributed to disorders of the circulatory and respiratory systems, musculoskeletal disorders and mental disorders alone.
There are several risk factors associated with a person’s risk of having a chronic disease, including level of physical activity, exposure to tobacco smoke and eating habits.
Overall the studies about urban greenspaces and landscaping it can be said that, healings gardens can be one intervention that provides several co-benefits to some of the major issues facing health today. Focusing on green space provides a unique therapeutic opportunity for the patience’s it is known that Well-designed healing gardens in hospitals and healthcare facilities reduce stress, improve clinical outcomes, provide opportunities for escape from stressful clinical settings, heighten patient/consumer satisfaction with healthcare providers, increase care quality, and consequently improve economic outcomes by reducing the costs of care. Medicine conceives well-being from a physiological and psychological perspective and in the context of health but has only rarely dealt with the relationship between well-being and landscape or open spaces at the least.
In the other hand we can improve the sustainability of healthcare in Canada by adding the healing gardens to the health system, Health care is responsible for 4.6% of Canada’s total greenhouse gas emissions, as well as more than 200,000 tons of other pollutants, resulting in 23,000 years of life lost every year due to disability or early death. As a result, the National Health Service aims to reduce nearly one million tons of emissions annually from metered dose inhaler use by creating a shared decision-making resource for physicians and patients identifying lower carbon, clinically equivalent alternatives.
The policy brief also recommends that Canada make health a key consideration in all climate-related policy and ensure that the country’s commitments represent its fair share of emissions reductions under the Paris Agreement.
During the last decade, sustainable landscape has been noticed as a promising field for promoting sustainable development, the creations of healing gardens can help to reduce this massive carbon footprint that the health system has promoted, and also as a development is economically functional, ecologically and socio-cultural useful, in a way that economic benefits can be gained without nature and resources being deployed. Various human activities produce pressures that alter the environment, leading to negative impacts on the human health and the environmental eco-system (Coelho et al). Landscape can be seen as the mitigation process in which health and well-being can be achieved through the sustainability process
