Social Prescribing: A Potential Way to Achieve Better Health Outcomes in Newfoundland & Labrador

Social prescribing is a way to connect patients to a range of non-clinical services in the community to improve health and well-being. It can help to address the underlying causes of patients’ health and well-being issues, as opposed to simply treating symptoms (A toolkit on how to implement social prescribing. WHO. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789290619765).

Explore Quality of Care NL’s infographic below to learn more about how social prescribing builds on the evidence that the social determinants of health have more influence on one’s health than genetics, biology or the health system.

Access a PDF version of the infographic at https://qualityofcarenl.ca/practice-points/infographics/.

To read more, check out the full article on social prescribing on page 107 of Practice Points Volume 10.

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