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Healthy Outdoors: A guide for measuring health outcomes when evaluating outdoor interventions

Dave Bell
Dave Bell • 17 March 2026

The Healthy Outdoors guide is a practical tool designed for a range of organisations including government, the voluntary and community sector, the NHS, academia, evaluators, funders, and the private sector. It helps organisations to identify appropriate measures and principles that can help ensure evaluations are consistent, robust, and focused on health outcomes.  

Whether supporting a Green social prescribing project, managing a community greenspace, designing Active Travel interventions or delivering physical activity programmes, users of the guide will be able to apply a shared approach to measuring health outcomes that strengthens evidence and reflects UK health priorities.  

To develop this resource, Natural England has worked in partnership with cross government partners from the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Sport England, Active Travel England and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. A wider stakeholder advisory group has also contributed valuable insight from the public health, environmental, voluntary and community sectors. 

Resource author(s)
Natural England
Resource publishing organisation(s) or journal
Natural England
Resource publication date
March 2026

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