Impact of urban greenspaces on the health of people subjected to different ailments

Abstract

The human population is becoming concentrated in cities worldwide and urban public greenspaces provide the chance to interact with the natural environment having healthy well-being. The lack of the natural environment may have negative effects, this present study focused on getting a perception of the people about the benefits of urban greenspaces. The objective of the study was to investigate the strength of the relationship between greenspaces and common public health. This correlation was examined for sex, age groups, literacy, and economic status in two study sites. The data was collected through a survey of randomly selected respondents in greenspaces. A questionnaire was designed and filled through interviewing the 292 visitors to investigate the role of greenspaces in medicine reduction, overall curative impact in different diseases, and psychological health benefits. The results so obtained were interpreted by SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) Version 19 with a chi-square test. Greenspace seems to be more than just a luxury because they provide a goldmine for population health promotion. Greenspaces provided a positive association between living habitat and perceived common health of the people. They provided the affordable, easily assessable, and reasonable choice for tackling different ailments wiz diabetes, obesity, muscular fatigue, and also added psychological effects in one’s daily life.