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Interrogating green social prescribing in South Wales; A multi-stakeholder qualitative exploration

Menna Brown Orcid Logo, Katharine Sarah Aylett

PLOS ONE, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Start page: e0314107

Swansea University Author: Menna Brown Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1371/journal.pone.0314107

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As an umbrella term, social prescribing offers varied routes into society which promise to support, enhance, and empower individual citizens to take control of their own health and wellbeing. Globally healthcare systems are struggling to cope with the increasing demands of an ageing population and t...

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Published in: PLOS ONE
ISSN: 1932-6203
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68657
Abstract: As an umbrella term, social prescribing offers varied routes into society which promise to support, enhance, and empower individual citizens to take control of their own health and wellbeing. Globally healthcare systems are struggling to cope with the increasing demands of an ageing population and the NHS (UK) is no exception. Social prescribing is heralded as a means to relieve the burden on primary care and provide support for the 20% of patients whose needs are non-medical. As such an increasing array of schemes are available, spanning five sub-sets: creative or nature-based referrals, welfare services, exercise referrals, education programmes or befriending support. Green social prescription offers significant potential to promote wellbeing and improve health outcomes. However limited research has explored this emergent sub-set.
College: Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences
Funders: This study was funded by a small grant obtained from the Learned Society of Wales, Early Career Research Network in 2023. Grant number (12-ECR-22) was awarded to Dr Brown. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Issue: 1
Start Page: e0314107

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