[Resource] A Toolkit on How to Implement Social Prescribing
This toolkit was created to help introduce social prescribing at the community level. It outlines the steps required to introduce a social prescribing scheme and includes sample materials, which can be adapted to the local context.
This toolkit can be used by implementing organizations and individuals, such as community health-care facilities, long-term care facilities, mental health clinicians and health-care workers. Policy-makers and health and social welfare authorities may also find this useful for scaling up social prescribing.
This toolkit aims to provides simple steps to implementing social prescribing to ensure managers and staff at community health-care facilities feel confident and empowered to utilize social prescribing as a pathway to improve health and well-being. It should be noted that social prescribing can be implemented in different ways and there is no one-size-fitsall approach. This toolkit builds on the examples of social prescribing implementation from several different countries.
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By
World Health Organization
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Published
Mar 20, 2024
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Subject Area
- General Health and Wellness
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Audience
- Service Providers (Non-profits, Community Organizations, Local government)
- Government (Politicians, Policy Makers) and Health Authorities
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Category
- Evidence-based & emerging practices
- Policy, Planning, & Procedures
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