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Nowadays, the leisure time of the inhabitants is increasing, meaning that urban green spaces are becoming more and more valuable, as people visit these places more often and for longer periods to spend their spare time there. In the aftermath of the Covid pandemic, these open spaces are playing an even more important role in social interaction. The features used by different groups of the society (sociotopes), the aesthetics and the atmosphere of green spaces all have an impact on the experiences gained in the area, all these may determine our perception and opinion of the given space. The present research aims to show, through the example of Stockholm's green spaces, the factors responsible for good or negative experiences and whether there is any correlation between these and the urban green space types. Stockholm was the first city to win the European Green Capital Award in 2010, showing its leadership in environmental thinking and being a role model for other European, including Hungarian (Budapest, Pécs) cities that have also applied for the European Green Capital Award but were not shortlisted as finalists. Stockholm can also be described as 'part water, part green belt, part city', as stated in an official document published by the European Commission (2010, p. 21). Stockholm ranks highly among European cities in terms of green space accessibility (Buckland–Pojani 2022), Green City Index score and environmental policy (Akande et al. 2019), as well as in terms of public satisfaction with the quality of life in the city (Okulicz-Kozaryn 2013), therefore may serve as a best practice model for other cities. A categorisation of Stockholm's green spaces has been carried out in this study, using Ibes' (2015) paper as a basis. According to this, six categories can be distinguished by using ten variables. The green space categories identified in the analysis show differences in the number of sociotope functions and differences in the temporal (time of day, season, length of stay), frequency (visits to the area) and economic (cost of services in the area) aspects of these categories. © 2023, Teruleti Statisztika. All Rights Reserved.
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that syndemics are a new path to global health research. Many medical researchers have since picked up on the topic, leading to the suggestion that the ongoing Covid-19 crisis is a syndemic and not a pandemic (Horton 2020). In a syndemic, the Covid-19 virus is not the primary cause of the current pandemic, but only a trigger due to the globally deteriorating human health (Horton 2020). Kenyon (Kenyon 2020) added that the syndemic approach needs to include an ecological dimension, while Mendenhall (Mendenhall 2020) stated that the context matters. None of the colleagues was wrong. However, it shows how little researchers from different disciplines interact and exchange on concepts. Syndemics is already well captured in the more medical-orientated OneHealth concept (Gibbs 2014), as well as in the more ecologically-orientated EcoHealth concept (Rapport 2007). All of these concepts and terms have in common to state that human health is inextricably linked to the environmental health and health-determining factors in the highly complex socio-ecological system. The complexity of this socio-ecological system, in which human health is embedded, is the underlying factor for the emergence of these slightly differently centred concepts, while the aim of all of these are the same: understanding the underlying causes for the increasing frequency of epidemics or panattributed to climate change, biodiversity loss, habitat degradation and an increasing rate of wildlife-human contacts, but that all of these are caused by synergies between