Resource: SOCIAL PRESCRIBING IN ONTARIO – Progress Report (Alliance for Healthier Communities)
Overview of social prescribing projects in 11 Ontario Community Health Centres
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Resource: ARTS ON PRESCRIPTION: Improving health and wellbeing through arts participation (Alliance for Healthier Communities)
Slides from a webinar outlining several projects in the Toronto area linking culture and wellbeing.
Resource: Creating Health Communities Through Cross-Sector Collaboration White Paper (University Center for Arts in Medicine & ArtPlace America)
This paper presents a case for how collaboration among the public health, arts and culture, and community development sectors is critical to addressing the issues and conditions that limit health in America.
Resource: Arts & Health at Duke (Duke University)
Compiled articles and resources from Arts & Health at Duke University.
Resource: Health Commons Fact Sheet: Impact of Loneliness & Isolation (Health Commons Solution Lab)
A two page infographic outlining the economic and health implications of loneliness and isolation on people as well as those most at risk to suffer.
Resource: What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being? A scoping review – Health Evidence Network synthesis report 67 (World Health Organization)
This report used a scoping review methodology to map the global academic literature in English and Russian from January 2000 to May 2019. Over 900 publications were identified, of which there were over 200 reviews, systematic reviews, metaanalyses and meta-syntheses covering over 3000 studies, and over 700 further individual studies.
Resource: Seniors & Suicide – Starting the Conversation with the AfterWhys Play (Suicide Awareness Council of Wellington-Dufferin)
A video related to the play AfterWhys, which highlights the risk factors for seniors as it relates to suicide and stresses the importance of reaching out for help and talking about the topic.
Resource: ‘Artlift’ arts-on-referral intervention in UK primary care: updated findings from an ongoing observational study (European Journal of Public Health)
Arts for health interventions are an accepted option for medical management of mental wellbeing in health care. Updated findings are presented from a prospective longitudinal follow-up (observational) design study of an arts on referral programme in UK general practice, over a 7-year period (2009–2016).
Resource: The MARCH Network (University College London)
The MARCH Network is one of 8 national networks funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) as part of the 2018 Cross-Council Mental Health Plus call to further research into mental health.
Resource: Visual Art and Mental Health: A systematic review… (What Works Centre for Wellbeing)
This systematic review aimed to address the primary question: What are the subjective wellbeing outcomes of engaging with visual arts for ‘working-age’ adults (15-64 years) with diagnosed mental health conditions?; and a related secondary question: What are the processes by which the subjective wellbeing outcomes are achieved?