Fitzgerald, L (2020). Living Our Best Life Project Report: Trialling Social Prescribing in the City of Knox. The Community Houses Association of the Outer-eastern Suburbs (CHAOS).

The Living our best life project was funded as an Ageing Innovation Challenge 2019. It sought to trial a model of social prescribing inspired by the work of Mendip Health Connections and the Bromley by Bow Centre in the United Kingdom.
Social prescribing is the practice where health professionals provid

Report
social prescribing service; community connector; evaluation report

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Directories
Directory; social supports

WHOWPR: World Health Organisation Regional Office for the Western Pacific. (2022). A Toolkit on how to Implement Social Prescribing.
Social prescribing is a means of connecting patients to a range of non-clinical services in the community to improve their health and well-being. It builds on the evidence that addressing social determinants of health such as socioeconomic status, social inclusion, housing, and education is key to improving health outcomes.
This toolkit was created t

Toolkit
Toolkit, workforce, implementation

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Directories
Directory