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WHAT IS SOCIAL PRESCRIBING
Social prescribing is a growing, evidence-based model of care that connects people to community
activities, relationships, and experiences that complement their medical care. It does not replace what
health systems do. It completes it.
Social prescribing was developed in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and is now recognized by the
World Health Organization as a core component of modern, person-centered healthcare.
The United States is at the beginning of its own social prescribing movement, with new pilots launching in health
systems across the country.
Beyond a Prescription is bringing social prescribing to rural and regional health systems.
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