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Supporting Vulnerable Populations During the Pandemic: Stakeholders’ Experiences and Perceptions of Social Prescribing in Scotland During Covid-19 [PDF]

open access: yesQualitative Health Research, 2022
Social prescribing schemes refer people toward personalized health/wellbeing interventions in local communities. Since schemes hold different representations of social prescribing, responses to the pandemic crisis will vary. Intersectionality states that
Alison Fixsen   +2 more
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Social Prescribing: A Review of the Literature [PDF]

open access: possible, 2022
This chapter presents an overview of interventions to address loneliness including individual therapies, group interventions and community-based approaches. We argue that individual cognitive behaviour therapy is neither necessary nor sufficient to address loneliness.
Dingle, Genevieve A., Sharman, Leah S.
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Social prescribing

2022
AbstractIn many countries social prescribing has become of major interest in both primary and secondary care of patients with psychiatric disorders. Social prescribing is defined as referring patients with psychiatric illnesses to a range of local and largely non-clinical services.
Wendy Burn, Dinesh Bhugra
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Weathering the storm: A qualitative study of social prescribing in urban and rural Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]

open access: yesSAGE Open Medicine, 2021
Objectives: The non-clinical approach known as social prescribing aims to tackle multi-morbidity, reduce general practitioner (GP) workload and promote wellbeing by directing patients to community services.
Alison Fixsen   +2 more
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The benefits of social prescribing

British Journal of Community Nursing, 2016
There are two reasons why promoting wellbeing should be prioritised. Firstly medical advances have secured ever-increasing life expectancy so that for those aged over 65 years there has been an upwards trend in life expectancy since the 1980s (Public Health England (PHE), 2015).
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