Creating Community Health

<p>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. </p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>