Special Issue "Effects of Alpine Natural Health Resources on Human Health and Wellbeing"
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023 | Viewed by 13315
Special Issue Editors

Interests: ecomedicine, microbial biodiversity and immunology; evidence-based health tourism; public health in alpine regions

Interests: green and white exercise in alpine space; allergy and asthma; microbiome and immunology, prevention; rehabilitation

Interests: green and white exercise in alpine space; musculoskeletal physiotherapy; prevention; rehabilitation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on “Effects of Alpine Natural Health Resources on Human Health and Wellbeing” is being organized. For detailed information on the journal, we refer you to the following webpage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.
The Alpine region, with its unique nature, terrain, climate, and cultural heritage, offers numerous opportunities to promote human health and wellbeing. A growing number of scientific studies have highlighted the crucial link between the loss of nature and poor physiological, psychological, and social health. Scientific evidence increasingly shows that contact with nature provides a wide range of health benefits.
Traditional alpine health resources, as well as the alpine terrain, show a huge potential with respect to research on evidence-based health supporting activities. The potential of Alpine health resources and associated activities, such as green and white exercise, balneotherapy, or special inhalation therapies—to name just a few examples—may offer new opportunities in health maintenance, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of certain diseases.
Thus, for this Special Issue, we welcome contributions related to “Effects of Alpine Natural Health Resources on Human Health and Wellbeing”. The keywords below provide an overview of some of the possible areas of interest.
Dr. Arnulf Josef Hartl
Dr. Johanna Freidl
Dr. Daniela Huber
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ecomedicine
- alpine health resources
- green and white exercise in alpine space
- health maintenance, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation in alpine space
- alpine microbiome
- evidence-based health tourism
- climate change and public health in alpine regions
- nature relatedness, nature connection
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Affiliation: Institute for Sports Medicine, Alpine Medicine and Health Tourism; University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall/Tirol & Tirol Kliniken GmbH, Innsbruck, Austria
Title: Can multiple short vacations boost the positive effects on health and sleep quality? A experimental study
Authors: Daniela Huber, Johanna Freidl, Arnulf Josef Hartl, et al.
Affiliation: Institut for Ecomedicine, Paracelus Privatmedizinische Universität, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
Title: Long-term effects of mountain hiking versus Forest Therapy – the ANKER-Study: A randomized controlled trial
Authors: Johanna Freidl, Daniela Huber, Arnulf Josef Hartl, et al.
Affiliation: Institut for Ecomedicine, Paracelus Privatmedizinische Universität, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
Title: Short-term effects of mountain hiking versus Forest Therapy – the ANKER-Study: A randomized controlled trial
Authors: Christina Pichler, Renate Weisböck-Erdheim, Arnulf Josef Hartl, et al.
Affiliation:Institut for Ecomedicine, Paracelus Privatmedizinische Universität, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
Title: Nature interventions: The role of health-related quality of life as assessment criterion