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Thanks, Ben, for sharing this report and your reflections on it. I know we're such a highly relational species -- it's no wonder that lack of relationships and our loneliness are are such big -- and literal -- SOCIAL determinants of (mental) health.

I wonder what it will take to bring the question of daily nature dosage into this conversation -- I can't help but wonder if you overlay the country-by-country data with routine time outdoors if you might see some correlations (I know causality would be tough to prove here). There are physicians pushing this with NatureRx, prescribe-a-park, prescribe-a-bike -- and an effort led by Dr. Melissa Sundermann to make "daily exposure to nature/fresh air" the 7th pillar of Lifestyle medicine.

Could nature-access be featured in the next "Mental State of the World" data collection and report?

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How might we better redress the wicked problem of mental health inequities? Where are the best scalable solutions?

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