Creating Community Health: Interventions for Sustainable Healthcare
Simon Lennane, 1032140976, 1032490047, 9781032490045, 978-1032490045, 978-1-032-49004-5, 978-1-032-14097-1, 978-1032140971, 9781032140971, 978-1-003-39178-4, 9781003391784, 978-1003391784, B0BXMQGW9C
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.