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cover image - Social Prescribing - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource (Retail Access Card),1st Edition
ISBN: 9780443114410
Copyright: 2025
Publication Date: 09-18-2024
Imprint: Elsevier
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Social Prescribing - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 1st Edition

by Heather Henry, RN, BSc (Hons) Nursing, Queen’s Nurse, MBA

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource - Access Card

cover image - Social Prescribing - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource (Retail Access Card),1st Edition
ISBN: 9780443114410
Copyright: 2025
Publication Date: 09-18-2024
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
  • 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
  • Heather Henry, RN, BSc (Hons) Nursing, Queen’s Nurse, MBA, Nurse Entrepreneur and Writer, Brightness Management Limited, Founder, BreathChamps CIC, Trustee, Being There Support for Life Limiting Illness, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
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