4th Symposium Organized by the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine
Verifying the effects of forest therapy on the health promotion and prevention for diseases from the scientific viewpoint
| Date | March 28, 2011 9:00-12:00 |
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| Place | Showa University Medical School, 1-5-8 Hatanodai Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8555, Japan |
| Chairpersons | Qing Li, MD, PhD (Nippon Medical School) Takahide Kagawa, PhD (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute) |
- Introduction of the symposium（9：00-9：10）
- Possibility of the forest therapy for preventing lifestyle related disease
Shigeyoshi Kumeda, MD, President of Nagano Prefectural Kiso Hospital
（9：10-9：30） - Subjective and physiological relaxing effect of a Hospital's Rooftop Forest on healthcare workers and elderly patients requiring care
Keiko Matsunaga, MD, Manager of the Health Service Facility Elderly Garden, Pediatrician of Matsunaga Hospital
（9：30-9：50） - Effect of forest therapy on the network of psycho-neuro-endocrino-immune systems
Qing Li, MD, PhD, Nippon Medical School
（9：50-10：10） - Physiological effect of nature therapy
Yoshifumi Miyazaki, Prof, PhD., Center for Environment, Health and Field Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
（10：10-10：30）
- Discussion（about 40 min）
10：30～11：10
The detailed information can be obtained from the following site:
http://eisei81.jtbcom.co.jp/program.html
