Creating Community Health

Simon Lennane

ISBN 10: 1032140976 / ISBN 13: 9781032140971

Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd, GB, 2023

About this Item

This important book explores how community-based interventions can bridge the gap between health services and the voluntary sector to create more sustainable, healthy communities. Moving beyond a technologically driven, medicalised approach to healthcare, the book shows how social prescribing can provide a direct pathway to improving community health, embracing connection and challenging inequality. Written by a practicing GP, and illustrated through practical guidance, it demonstrates how this can offer a cost-effective, preventative means to improving health outcomes, enabling communities to be more resilient when confronting major issues such as climate change or pandemics.Building to a case study of how these methods were used in one town, Ross-on-Wye, the book will be invaluable reading for those working in healthcare, public health, local authorities, and the voluntary sector, as well as students and researchers interested in these areas.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creating Community Health
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd, GB
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032140976
• ISBN 13: 9781032140971
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.6W x 1.27H x 23.4D centimeters 15.6 centimeters width by 1.27 centimeters height by 23.4 centimeters depth
• Weight: 410 grams

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Synopsis

This important book explores how community-based interventions can bridge the gap between health services and the voluntary sector to create more sustainable, healthy communities.

Moving beyond a technologically driven, medicalised approach to healthcare, the book shows how social prescribing can provide a direct pathway to improving community health, embracing connection and challenging inequality. Written by a practicing GP, and illustrated through practical guidance, it demonstrates how this can offer a cost-effective, preventative means to improving health outcomes, enabling communities to be more resilient when confronting major issues such as climate change or pandemics.

Building to a case study of how these methods were used in one town, Ross-on-Wye, the book will be invaluable reading for those working in healthcare, public health, local authorities, and the voluntary sector, as well as students and researchers interested in these areas.

About the Author

Dr Simon Lennane has been a GP in Ross-on-Wye for twenty years. Simon was Clinical Director of the local Primary Care Network during the pandemic, responsible for urgent care and vaccination clinics, and was also clinical lead for mental health commissioning. Simon published research into ethnicity and deaths of healthcare workers from COVID-19. He has long been involved with community development in the town, and was a founder trustee of Ross Community Development Trust, which supports the local voluntary sector.
Twitter: @SimonLennane. Mastodon: @SimonLennane@mas.to