Healthy Parks, Healthy People

- Focusing on Green Healing Sharing Camp

in Korea National Park Service (KNPS)

Making Healthy Parks Heatlhy People Real

: a Workshop on the draft IUCN Best Practice Guidelines

8:30~10:00 18 Nov. 2014

Dr. Kim, Chong-Chun

FLOW

1. Outline

2. Main Challenges & Solutions

3. Future Plan

4. Other Activities

1. Outline

• Well-being, Natural-being, LOHAS etc.

• Utilizing natural environment of national parks, and involving experts from health sector

Increase of Needs & Interest of Natural Healing

Increase of Environmental Disease Patients

• No. of environmental disease patients in Korea

- 2002 (5,570,000) → 2013 (8,150,000)

1.1. Background

1.2. What is “Green Healing Sharing Camp”?

• Natural experience in National Park

• Hiking in Forest

• Participating interpretation & meditation

National Park

• Consultation for atopy prevention

• Medical examination (Allergic reaction)

• Effectiveness Analysis

Medical Institutions

2014

13 National Park Offices (80 times / 3,500 People)

(in city-based National Parks)

Priority for Underprivileged People

2010

2013

2009

26 National Park Offices (27 times/ 960 People)

15 National Park Offices (70 times / 3,200 People)

Pilot Project

2011

2012

1.3. Progress

1.4. Project types

B type

A type

C type

A type

10 NP Offices,

cooperation with local health center

55 times, 2,260 persons participants

B type

5 NP Offices

cooperation with environmental health center

20 times, 977 participants

C type

1 NP Office (Mt. Deokyoosan)

cooperation with Eco-educenter in Jin-an-gun

2 times, 58 participants

2. Main Challenges and Solutions

Challenges

Solutions

• Lack of Expertise in Medical Field

• Capacity building workshop for program organizer

• Involving medical expertise to program

• Difficulties to find appropriate participants

• Low awareness about Green Healing Sharing Camp

Challenges

Solutions

• Enhancement of cooperation with Health Sector

-Signing MOU with 5 relevant organization including

children center and local governments

• Increasing understanding and awareness by media

Lack of Fund and institutional foundation

Challenges

Solutions

Foundation Sharing fund with co working

organization

Give more chances to underprivileged people to participate in

3. Future Plan

Enhance media promotion to increase social awareness about the

program

Enlargement of long stay type program

Increase expertise of program organizers

Enhancement of scientific research about influence of national park

on human being’s health (Building Database, Value Assessment etc.)

Enhance partnership with medical institutions

4. Other HPHP Activities- in National Park Facilities Field

<Dulle-gil Green Healing>

• Dulle-gil : Established in Mt. Bukhansan N.P. (2011),

71.5 km, 2,500,000 visitors/1 year

Mt. Bukhansan N.P.

Health Dream Program

- Body Mass Index (BMI) : -0.2kg

- Waist to Hip Ratio (WHR) : -1.3cm

- Blood Sugar : -0.7 mg/dl

- HDL Cholesterol :+3.9 mg/dl

Ways of Healing Facilities

- Infra : Eco Facility, Camping Trail, Eco Healing Center

- Design : Universal Design, Barrier-free Design, Eco Design

Universal Design Guideline and part of Guideline

Recently, school violence and internet addiction are

emerging recent year in Korea

To prevent social problems for youth, KNPS runs

Sociality Enhancement Program for Yooth.

- National Park Nature & History Experience program

- Healing program by mental health education for yooth

and temple stay

4. Other HPHP Activities- in Sociality Enhancement Program for Yooth

Thank You 감사합니다.