Models of social prescribing to address non-medical needs in adults: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The health and wellbeing consequences of social determinants of health and health behaviours are well established. This has led to a growing interest in social prescribing, which involves linking people to services and supports in the community and voluntary sectors to address non-medical needs. However, there is considerable variability in approaches to social prescribing with little guidance on how social prescribing could be developed to reflect local health systems and needs. The purpose of this scoping review was to describe the types of social prescribing models used to address non-medical needs to inform co-design and decision-making for social prescribing program developers.

Methods

We searched Ovid MEDLINE(R), CINAHL, Web of Science, Scopus, National Inst

SUBMITTER: Oster C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10268538 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature