
- 206 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This important book explores how community-based interventions can bridge the gap between health services and the voluntary sector to create more sustainable, healthy communities.
Moving beyond a technologically driven, medicalised approach to healthcare, the book shows how social prescribing can provide a direct pathway to improving community health, embracing connection and challenging inequality. Written by a practicing GP, and illustrated through practical guidance, it demonstrates how this can offer a cost-effective, preventative means to improving health outcomes, enabling communities to be more resilient when confronting major issues such as climate change or pandemics.
Building to a case study of how these methods were used in one town, Ross-on-Wye, the book will be invaluable reading for those working in healthcare, public health, local authorities, and the voluntary sector, as well as students and researchers interested in these areas.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Community health
- 2 Health and its determinants
- 3 Disorders of society
- 4 Healthcare structures
- 5 Prescribing society
- 6 Social prescriptions
- 7 Social infrastructure
- 8 COVID-19
- 9 Planetary health
- 10 Sustainable policy
- 11 Developing community
- Further resources
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Credits
- Index