Applying critical systems thinking to social prescribing: a relational model of stakeholder "buy-in".

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social prescribing (SP) allows health professionals to refer primary care patients toward health and wellbeing interventions and activities in the local community. Now widely implemented across the UK and adopted in other nations, questions arise concerning the modelling of present and future schemes, including challenges to full engagement encountered by stakeholders, which lie beyond the scope of traditional evaluations. Critical Systems Thinking (CST) allows for holistic analysis of fields where multiple stakeholders hold diverse interests and unequal power.

Methods

We use CST to (a) critically examine a developing rural social prescribing scheme from multiple stakeholder perspectives and (b) present a relational model for local social prescribing schemes. Our

SUBMITTER: Fixsen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7312116 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature