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Bulletin des Médecins Suisses, 2020 This article aims to describe what constitutes social prescribing, to highlight examples of services that exist, and to discuss the existing evidence base for social prescribing.
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Exploring how and why social prescribing evaluations work: a realist review
BMJ Open, 2022 Objective The evidence base for social prescribing is inconclusive, and evaluations have been criticised for lacking rigour. This realist review sought to understand how and why social prescribing evaluations work or do not work.
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BMJ Open, 2022 Introduction UK higher education (HE) student numbers are increasing and students report higher levels of mental health and well-being issues. Social prescribing links individuals to community-based, non-medical support.
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Guest Editorial: Social Prescribing [PDF]
Journal of Research in Nursing, 2018 Journal guest editorial article.
Kenkra, J, Howarth, ML
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Enhancing Student Wellbeing Through Social Prescribing: A Rapid Realist Review
Public Health Reviews, 2023 Objectives: A Rapid Realist Review of social prescribing in Higher Education (HE) was undertaken to determine what works, for whom, how, why, and within what circumstances. The review resulted in the development of a Realist Programme Theory articulating
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Social Prescribing as ‘Social Cure’: A longitudinal study of the health benefits of social connectedness within a Social Prescribing pathway [PDF]
Journal of Health Psychology, 2020 We examined whether the Social Cure (SC) perspective explains the efficacy of a Social Prescribing (SP) pathway which addresses healthcare needs through enhancing social connections. Data were collected at pathway entry from patients with long-term health conditions, or who felt isolated/lonely/anxious ( N = 630), then again 4 months later ( N = 178 ...
Wakefield, J +7 more
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A social prescriptions formulary: bringing social prescribing on par with pharmaceutical prescribing [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2019 Social prescribing is a way of linking patients in primary care with sources of support within the community to help improve their health and well-being[...] Schemes commonly use services provided by the voluntary and community sector and can include an extensive range of practical information and advice, community activity, physical activities ...
Jani, Anant +5 more
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Social prescribing in general practice [PDF]
British Journal of General Practice, 2019 Social prescribing is a health pathway which enables GPs and others to refer patients with psychosocial challenges onto non-clinical support and activities within their local community. This is usually facilitated by a social prescribing link worker who may also offer one-to-one support to the patient in the form of a brief coaching intervention.
Caroline, Frostick, Marcello, Bertotti
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Social determinants of prescribed and non-prescribed medicine use [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2010 AbstractBackgroundThe aim of the present study was to describe the use of prescribed and non prescribed medicines in a non-institutionalised population older than 15 years of an urban area during the year 2000, in terms of age and gender, social class, employment status and type of Primary Health Care.MethodsCross-sectional study. Information came from
García-Altés Anna +6 more
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PLoS ONE, 2023 PurposeThis is a study protocol to co-create with knowledge users a core outcome set focused on middle-aged and older adults (40 years+) for use in social prescribing research.MethodsWe will follow the Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials (COMET)
Elham Esfandiari +15 more
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