Creating Community Health: Interventions for Sustainable Healthcare

By Simon Lennane

Book Overview

This 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032140976
• ISBN13: 9781032140971
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"