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Italy towards social prescribing

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  • Annalisa Cicerchia
  • Catterina Seia
  • Vittoria Azzarita

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Social prescribing is the inclusion of social, and especially artistic and cultural, activities to complement pathways for health promotion, and disease prevention, management: treatment is based on a biopsychosocial view of health. In this view, it is not only biophysical factors that determine people’s well-being and health, but also a complex system of social determinants, which must be considered in care strategies. Practiced in the United Kingdom as part of primary care physicians’ practice since the mid-1990s, and widespread in other countries, such as Canada, Belgium, and New Zealand, social prescribing is now also recommended by the WHO World Health Organization, which released a manual in late 2023 to facilitate its adoption. As of 2024 in manual is also available in Italian.

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  • Annalisa Cicerchia & Catterina Seia & Vittoria Azzarita, 2023. "Italy towards social prescribing," Economia della Cultura, Società editrice il Mulino, issue Speciale, pages 71-80.
    • Handle: RePEc:mul:jkrece:doi:10.1446/112788:y:2023:i:speciale:p:71-80
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