International Arts + Mind Lab, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Unite Us, New York, NY, USA.
Am J Health Promot. 2023 Nov;37(8):1045-1048. doi: 10.1177/08901171231188191. Epub 2023 Aug 4.
U.S. healthcare institutions increasingly integrate screenings for social needs into standard care, and help meet those needs by referring patients to community-based resources. However, community arts/culture assets are not commonly included among those resources. Given growing evidence of the positive health impacts of arts/culture, and given that access to these benefits remains inequitable, this article argues for the integration of arts/culture resources into healthcare referral networks. It highlights two early models, the CultureRx initiative in Massachusetts and Creative Forces, both of which piloted this integration with promising results. It also offers suggestions for better utilizing local arts/culture assets, emphasizing that these existing community resources can and should be applied to advance whole-person strategies and better address social drivers of health.
美国医疗机构日益将社会需求筛查纳入标准护理，并通过将患者转介到社区资源来帮助满足这些需求。然而，社区艺术/文化资产通常不包括在这些资源中。鉴于艺术/文化对健康的积极影响的证据越来越多，并且获得这些益处仍然存在不平等，本文主张将艺术/文化资源纳入医疗保健转介网络。它强调了两个早期模型，即马萨诸塞州的 CultureRx 倡议和 Creative Forces，这两个模型都通过试点该整合取得了有希望的成果。它还为更好地利用当地艺术/文化资产提供了建议，强调这些现有的社区资源可以而且应该用于推进整体策略，更好地解决健康的社会驱动因素。
