ISBN:
9780443114403
Copyright:
2025
Publication Date:
09-13-2024
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$34.99
Social Prescribing - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 1st Edition
by Heather Henry, RN, BSc (Hons) Nursing, Queen’s Nurse, MBA
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
ISBN:
9780443114403
Copyright:
2025
Publication Date:
09-13-2024
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$34.99
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- Presents a balanced approach to the current debates and critiques of social prescribing
- Summarises the main arguments with supporting evidence and resources
- Covers the history and current policy, and provides a detailed analysis of the evidence base around how social prescribing can improve wellbeing
- Offers different paradigms and models of social prescribing, including concepts around power, control, relationships, economics, recognizing strengths and assets, managing complexity, and enabling self-organisation
- Includes perspectives from an impressive list of contributors, from eminent thought leaders like Professor Sir Michael Marmot and Lord Gus O’Donnell to local leaders, citizens and voices from all levels in the system
- Extends beyond health and care to other sectors that impact the social determinants of health including urgent and emergency services, housing and education
- Uses accessible language throughout – suitable for anyone from system leaders to researchers, educators, practitioners and students
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Foreword
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Two Personal Experiences of Social
Prescribing
Section 1
SETTING THE SCENE
1 Introduction
2 Social Prescribing—Where Did It Come From and
Where Is It Going?
3 What Is Wellbeing and What Keeps Us Well?
4 History of Social Prescribing,
5 The Link to Health Equity
6 Does Social Prescribing ‘Work’?
7 Summary Section 1 Setting the Scene
Section 2
PARADIGMS
8 Personalised Care
9 Going Upstream: Community Power and the
Community Paradigm,
10 Interview With Lord Gus O’Donnell
11 Primary Care, Health Creation and the Role of
Social Prescribing
12 Relational Welfare
13 Summary Section 2 Paradigms
Section 3
PERSPECTIVES
14 Social Prescribing With Children & Young
People
15 An Ethnographic View of General Practice
16 Social Prescribing: A Panacea or Another Top-Down
Programme?
17 The NHS Foundation Trust as Catalyst for
Change
18 The View From the VCSE Sector
19 Workforce Transformation
20 Summary Section 3 Perspectives
Section 4
PRACTICE
21 Connecting Community
22 The DeStress-II Project: Enhancing Primary
Care Responses to Poverty-Related Mental
Distress
23 Learning From Buurtzorg in Community Nursing
Services
24 The Contribution of Allied Health
Professionals
25 The Role of Urgent and Emergency Services
26 Housing, Health and Wellbeing: Perfect
Partners
27 Building Hope for a Better Future Fleetwood:
A Small Town With a Big Heart
28 London’s Commitment to Social Prescribing
29 Summary Section 4 Practice
30 Conclusion
Glossary
Index
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