TY - JOUR
T1 - Social prescribing and lifestyle medicine—a remedy to chronic health problems?
AU - Baska, Alicja
AU - Kurpas, Donata
AU - Kenkre, Joyce
AU - Vidal-Alaball, Josep
AU - Petrazzuoli, Ferdinando
AU - Dolan, Miriam
AU - Śliż, Daniel
AU - Robins, Joanne
N1 - Funding Information:
Social Prescribing in Northern Ireland is primarily delivered by SPRING Social Prescribing [9] following on from a pilot project delivered by Bogside and Brandywell Health Forum (BBHF) in the Derry/Londonderry region between 2015 and 2018. SPRING Social Northern Ireland’s Healthy Living Centre Alliance (HLCA) and Scottish Communities for Health and Wellbeing (SCHW) have now created a partnership. The funding comes from the National Lottery, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs and the Housing Executive. People are identified and referred by their primary health care professional using a specific digital platform [10]. mPower [11] is another social prescribing project which will run from 2017 to 2021 and is supported by the European Union’s INTERREG VA Programme. The project has created a cross-border service for older people (age 65+) living with long-term conditions across the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Funding Information:
As this opinion paper was written in the aftermath of an online meeting ?Social prescribing and lifestyle medicine?remedy to chronic health problems?? hosted on 1 June 2020, the authors would like to acknowledge Rob Lawson?Chairman of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine and President of the European Lifestyle Medicine Council and Dominik Lewandowski? President of the ?M?odzi Lekarze Rodzinni? (Young Family Doctors) for their contribution to the discussion.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2021/10/1
Y1 - 2021/10/1
N2 - Social prescribing has been identified as a chance to take a holistic approach to people’s health and wellbeing, especially for people with one or more long-term conditions. Its systemic implementation was a part of the recent United Kingdom National Health Service Long Term Plan. With a lifestyle medicine focus on equipping patients in tools necessary for self-care and self-management of their lifestyle-related health problems that coexists with the need for creating an environment supporting healthy choices, a social prescribing model seems to offer a promising strategy for advancing lifestyle medicine. This idea was discussed during a meeting hosted by the Polish Society of Lifestyle Medicine in collaboration with European Rural and Isolated Practitioners Association, Polish Society of Young Family Doctors (“Młodzi Lekarze Rodzinni”), British Society of Lifestyle Medicine and European Lifestyle Medicine Council in June 2020. The aftermath—this position statement is an Authors’ attempt at summarizing the common ground for social prescribing and lifestyle medicine. It collects experiences of practitioners and researchers from five European countries as well as making recommendations for applying this model in Poland. Despite referring to local conditions, it might provide universal takeaway messages for any healthcare providers interested in combining social prescribing with lifestyle medicine practice.
AB - Social prescribing has been identified as a chance to take a holistic approach to people’s health and wellbeing, especially for people with one or more long-term conditions. Its systemic implementation was a part of the recent United Kingdom National Health Service Long Term Plan. With a lifestyle medicine focus on equipping patients in tools necessary for self-care and self-management of their lifestyle-related health problems that coexists with the need for creating an environment supporting healthy choices, a social prescribing model seems to offer a promising strategy for advancing lifestyle medicine. This idea was discussed during a meeting hosted by the Polish Society of Lifestyle Medicine in collaboration with European Rural and Isolated Practitioners Association, Polish Society of Young Family Doctors (“Młodzi Lekarze Rodzinni”), British Society of Lifestyle Medicine and European Lifestyle Medicine Council in June 2020. The aftermath—this position statement is an Authors’ attempt at summarizing the common ground for social prescribing and lifestyle medicine. It collects experiences of practitioners and researchers from five European countries as well as making recommendations for applying this model in Poland. Despite referring to local conditions, it might provide universal takeaway messages for any healthcare providers interested in combining social prescribing with lifestyle medicine practice.
KW - Family medicine
KW - Lifestyle medicine
KW - Non-communicable diseases
KW - Public health
KW - Social determinants of health
KW - Social prescribing
U2 - 10.3390/ijerph181910096
DO - 10.3390/ijerph181910096
M3 - Article
C2 - 34639398
AN - SCOPUS:85115666536
VL - 18
JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
SN - 1661-7827
IS - 19
M1 - 10096
ER -
