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Book SynopsisThis important book explores how community-based interventions can bridge the gap between health services and the voluntary sector to create more sustainable, healthy communities.
Moving beyond a technologically driven, medicalised approach to healthcare, the book shows how social prescribing can provide a direct pathway to improving community health, embracing connection and challenging inequality. Written by a practicing GP, and illustrated through practical guidance, it demonstrates how this can offer a cost-effective, preventative means to improving health outcomes, enabling communities to be more resilient when confronting major issues such as climate change or pandemics.
Building to a case study of how these methods were used in one town, Ross-on-Wye, the book will be invaluable reading for those working in healthcare, public health, local authorities, and the voluntary sector, as well as students and researchers interested in these areas.
Trade Review"Social prescribing is critical to addressing the health of all patients. Traditional medicine covers at best 20% of their needs, and has significant side effects and risks. This book explores how developing communities facilitates lifestyle changes to improve population health."
-Sir Sam Everington, GP, Bromley By Bow Centre.
"Simon Lennane’s book is a treasury of resources of the profound effect of community building on healthcare and beyond, to the future of our planet. The magic of communities has the potential to transform our world and Creating Community Health shows how this can be done."
-Dr Julian Abel, Director of Compassionate Communities UK and co-author of 'The Compassion Project'.
Table of Contents1. Community Health 2. Health and its Determinants 3. Disorders of Society 4. Healthcare Structures 5. Prescribing Society 6. Social Prescriptions 7. Social Infrastructure 8. COVID-19 9. Planetary Health 10. Sustainable Policy 11. Developing Community
