Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol 44, No 6, June 2024

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada Journal

Special issue: Social prescribing in Canada: an emerging approach to health and well-being, part I

Guest Editors: Sandra Allison, Kiffer G. Card and Kate Mulligan

Consult Part II here

Inside this issue

Editorial

Social prescribing in Canada: health promotion in action, 50 years after the Lalonde report
Kate Mulligan, Kiffer G. Card, Sandra Allison

Evidence synthesis

Outcomes and instruments used in social prescribing: a modified umbrella review
Maureen C. Ashe, Isis Kelly dos Santos, Hadil Alfares, Anna M. Chudyk, Elham Esfandiari

Original qualitative research

How does fresh food prescribing fit into the social service landscape? A qualitative study in Ontario, Canada
Laura Jane Brubacher, Matthew Little, Abby Richter, Warren Dodd

Commentary

Food prescribing in Canada: evidence, critiques and opportunities
Matthew Little, Warren Dodd, Laura Jane Brubacher, Abby Richter

Nature prescribing: emerging insights about reconciliation-based and culturally inclusive approaches from a tricultural community health centre
Anita Vaillancourt, Rebecca Barnstaple, Natalie Robitaille, Taylor Williams

Building the social prescribing student movement in Canada
Caitlin Muhl, Le-Tien Bhaskar, Michelle Ruhigisha, Ellen McGarity-Shipley

At-a-glance

Black-focused social prescribing: the importance of an Afrocentric approach
Sofia Ramirez, Natasha Beaudin, Jennifer Rayner, Neil Price, Daniel Townsend

Letter to the Editor

Nonclinical prescriptions gave me light of hope: perspectives from people with lived experiences
Myrna Norman

Patient voice at the core of social prescribing: perspectives from people with lived experiences
Sudi Barre

Social prescribing training for doctors: perspectives from people with lived experiences
Herb Paquette

Announcement

Call for papers: Generating stronger evidence to inform policy and practice: natural experiments on built environments, health behaviours and chronic diseases

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