The Role of Place in Social Prescribing: A State-of-the-Art Literature Review

IF 2 4区 医学 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Emilie McSwiggan, Eddie Donaghy, Jackie Gulland, Amy O’Donnell, Stewart W. Mercer
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Abstract

Introduction: Social prescribing seeks to connect people to community-based resources, to improve their health and wellbeing. It is often framed as a response to health inequalities. However, the impact of place-based differences is seldom considered. As social prescribing depends on local resources, this is a significant knowledge gap. This review aims to examine the extent to which social prescribing research to date has engaged with places and communities.

Methods: This state-of-the-art literature review has three components: (1) Four databases (PubMed, ASSIA, Web of Science and Scopus) were searched for social prescribing literature reviews; key characteristics were charted and a timeline created. (2) Each review was assessed for its engagement with concepts of place, and findings were synthesised narratively. (3) Exploratory searches were conducted in PubMed for primary research on place in social prescribing, and findings summarised descriptively.

Results: A total of 97 eligible literature reviews were identified. A timeline of these reviews and their characteristics was created, including population, referral reasons, social prescribing model, intervention and aim. No reviews had ‘complete’ engagement with concepts of place. Thirty-one had ‘partial’ engagement. These suggested five ways of thinking about place: place as healing, experience of societal inequalities and its effect on place, how deprivation shapes place, place as the context for social prescribing and alternative conceptions of place. We found eight primary studies addressing social prescribing and place. Six looked in detail at a particular place or characteristic of places, and two contributed theoretical understandings of the relationship between place and social prescribing.

Discussion: The role of place in social prescribing remains understudied. Future research could develop theory and frameworks to account for place or identify which elements of place-based community infrastructure are particularly relevant for social prescribing, especially as deprivation and austerity continue to diminish community resources in the areas which most need them.

地方在社会规定中的作用:最新的文献综述
引言:社会处方旨在将人们与社区资源联系起来,以改善他们的健康和福祉。它往往被定义为对卫生不平等的回应。然而,地域差异的影响很少被考虑。由于社会处方依赖于当地资源,这是一个重大的知识差距。本综述旨在考察迄今为止社会处方研究在多大程度上与地方和社区进行了接触。方法:本文献综述由三个部分组成:(1)检索PubMed、ASSIA、Web of Science和Scopus四个数据库进行社会处方文献综述检索;关键特征被绘制出来,并创建了一个时间表。(2)每篇综述都对其与地点概念的联系进行了评估,并对研究结果进行了综合叙述。(3)在PubMed中探索性检索社会处方中位置的初步研究,并对研究结果进行描述性总结。结果:共纳入97篇符合要求的文献综述。建立了这些评价及其特征的时间轴,包括人口、转诊原因、社会处方模式、干预和目标。没有评论“完全”涉及到地点的概念。31人有“部分”参与。他们提出了五种思考地方的方式:地方作为治疗,社会不平等的经历及其对地方的影响,剥夺如何塑造地方,地方作为社会规定的背景和地方的替代概念。我们发现了8项关于社会处方和位置的主要研究。六篇详细研究了一个特定的地方或地方的特征,两篇对地方和社会规定之间的关系做出了理论理解。讨论:位置在社会处方中的作用仍未得到充分研究。未来的研究可以发展理论和框架来解释地点或确定基于地点的社区基础设施的哪些要素与社会处方特别相关,特别是在贫困和紧缩继续减少最需要它们的地区的社区资源的情况下。
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期刊介绍: Health and Social Care in the community is an essential journal for anyone involved in nursing, social work, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, general practice, health psychology, health economy, primary health care and the promotion of health. It is an international peer-reviewed journal supporting interdisciplinary collaboration on policy and practice within health and social care in the community. The journal publishes: - Original research papers in all areas of health and social care - Topical health and social care review articles - Policy and practice evaluations - Book reviews - Special issues
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