Social prescribing (SP) seeks to enhance the role of the voluntary and community sector in
addressing patients' complex needs in primary care. Using discourse analysis, this review …

Abstract In the United Kingdom (UK), link worker social prescribing has emerged as an
option to improve long‐term condition management and address primary care patients' non …

Background The weathering hypothesis views the elevated rates of illness, disability, and
mortality seen among Black Americans as a physiological response to the structural barriers …

Social prescribing, characterised by a link worker connecting patients with local groups and
services, is currently being widely implemented in the UK. Taking clients' experiences of a …

Social prescribing schemes refer people toward personalized health/wellbeing interventions
in local communities. Since schemes hold different representations of social prescribing …

Background Social prescribing involving primary care-based 'link workers' is a key UK
health policy that aims to reduce health inequalities. However, the process of …

• Primary care–based social interventions offer an important means to mitigate threats to
individual and community health posed by adverse social conditions.• Effective interventions …

In the early 2000s, the Institute of Medicine in the United States issued two landmark reports.
The first, To Err is Human (Institute of Medicine, 2000), shed light on the scale and cost of …

Health services are increasingly being reshaped with reference to addressing social
determinants of health (SDoH), with social prescribing a prominent example. We examine a …

The last decade has seen a surge of interest and investment in green social prescribing,
however, both healthcare and social enterprise has been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis …