Children who grow up with greener surroundings have up to 55 percent less risk of developing various mental disorders later in life, according to a study which emphasised the need for designing green and healthy cities for the future.
An increasing share of the world's population now lives in cities and World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that more than 450 millions of the global human population suffer from a mental disorder.
Based on satellite data from 1985 to 2013, researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark have mapped the presence of green space around the childhood homes of almost one million Danes and compared this data with the risk of developing one of 16 different mental disorders later in life.