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Green Social Prescribing in Practice: A Case Study of Walsall, UK
This paper presents a case study of Green Social Prescribing (GSP) in Walsall, a medium-sized urban area located in the West Midlands, UK. GSP is a means of enabling health professionals to refer people to a range of local non-clinical nature-based activities, e.g., community gardening and conservat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10487442/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37681848 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20176708 |
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author | Sun, Qian Loveday, Mary Nwe, Saw Morris, Nike Boxall, Emily |
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description | This paper presents a case study of Green Social Prescribing (GSP) in Walsall, a medium-sized urban area located in the West Midlands, UK. GSP is a means of enabling health professionals to refer people to a range of local non-clinical nature-based activities, e.g., community gardening and conservation volunteering. As a new practice to address multiple challenges in health and sustainability, GSP has been promoted by the UK government and the NHS in the past few years. There is as yet limited evidence and knowledge about how this approach is implemented at a local level. This paper addresses this gap of knowledge, by exploring how GSP is implemented in Walsall as a case study. Based on extensive engagement and research activities with the local partners to collect data, this paper reveals the local contexts of GSP, the referral pathways, and people’s lived experience, discussing the challenges, barriers, and opportunities in delivering GSP at the local level. This study suggests that a more collaborative and genuine place-based approach is essential, and alongside GSP, investment into infrastructure is needed to move the health paradigm further from ‘prevention’ to ‘promotion’ so that more people can benefit from what nature can offer. |
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spelling | pubmed-104874422023-09-09 Green Social Prescribing in Practice: A Case Study of Walsall, UK Sun, Qian Loveday, Mary Nwe, Saw Morris, Nike Boxall, Emily Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This paper presents a case study of Green Social Prescribing (GSP) in Walsall, a medium-sized urban area located in the West Midlands, UK. GSP is a means of enabling health professionals to refer people to a range of local non-clinical nature-based activities, e.g., community gardening and conservation volunteering. As a new practice to address multiple challenges in health and sustainability, GSP has been promoted by the UK government and the NHS in the past few years. There is as yet limited evidence and knowledge about how this approach is implemented at a local level. This paper addresses this gap of knowledge, by exploring how GSP is implemented in Walsall as a case study. Based on extensive engagement and research activities with the local partners to collect data, this paper reveals the local contexts of GSP, the referral pathways, and people’s lived experience, discussing the challenges, barriers, and opportunities in delivering GSP at the local level. This study suggests that a more collaborative and genuine place-based approach is essential, and alongside GSP, investment into infrastructure is needed to move the health paradigm further from ‘prevention’ to ‘promotion’ so that more people can benefit from what nature can offer. MDPI 2023-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10487442/ /pubmed/37681848 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20176708 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Sun, Qian Loveday, Mary Nwe, Saw Morris, Nike Boxall, Emily Green Social Prescribing in Practice: A Case Study of Walsall, UK |
title | Green Social Prescribing in Practice: A Case Study of Walsall, UK |
title_full | Green Social Prescribing in Practice: A Case Study of Walsall, UK |
title_fullStr | Green Social Prescribing in Practice: A Case Study of Walsall, UK |
title_full_unstemmed | Green Social Prescribing in Practice: A Case Study of Walsall, UK |
title_short | Green Social Prescribing in Practice: A Case Study of Walsall, UK |
title_sort | green social prescribing in practice: a case study of walsall, uk |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10487442/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37681848 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20176708 |
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