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Social prescribing enables healthcare professionals to refer to a range of local, non-clinical services. Nature based prescribing is the practice of supporting people to engage in nature-based interventions and activities to improve mental and physical health. It is often further sub-divided into green or blue prescribing. Activities usually involve contact with other people e.g. walking groups rather than just encouraging someone to go for a walk on their own; there is evidence for an associated reduction in loneliness. This course explores how social prescribing not only supports individual health and wellbeing but also generates wider environmental gains. GPs will learn how nature-based activities such as community gardening (green prescribing) and activities on or near water (blue prescribing) can reduce healthcare demand, foster sustainable behaviours, and enhance local ecosystems. The course highlights how linking people to community and environmental resources creates a ripple effect of benefits for both human and planetary health. This course falls within the Population Health curriculum field. |
