Muhl Caitlin, Bennett Susan, Fragman Stéphanie, Racine Nicole
Vanier Social Pediatric Hub, Vanier Community Services Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Health Quality Programs, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Paediatr Child Health. 2024 Jan 24;29(5):300-302. doi: 10.1093/pch/pxae002. eCollection 2024 Aug.
Social prescribing is a means for trusted individuals in clinical and community settings to connect people who have non-medical, health-related social needs to non-clinical supports and services within the community through a non-medical prescription. Evaluations of social prescribing programs for the pediatric population have demonstrated statistically significant improvements in participants' mental, physical, and social wellbeing and reductions in healthcare demand and costs. Experts have pointed to the particularly powerful impact of social prescribing on children's mental health, suggesting that it may help to alleviate the strain on the overburdened mental health system. Social prescribing shows promise as a tool to move pediatric care upstream by addressing non-medical, health-related social needs, hence why there is an urgent need to direct more attention towards the pediatric population in social prescribing research, policy, and practice. This demands rapid action by researchers, policymakers, and child health professionals to support advancements in this area.
社会处方是临床和社区环境中值得信赖的个人通过非医疗处方，将有非医疗、与健康相关的社会需求的人与社区内的非临床支持和服务联系起来的一种方式。对儿科人群社会处方项目的评估表明，参与者的心理、身体和社会幸福感有统计学上的显著改善，医疗需求和成本也有所降低。专家指出，社会处方对儿童心理健康有特别强大的影响，表明它可能有助于缓解负担过重的心理健康系统的压力。社会处方作为一种通过解决非医疗、与健康相关的社会需求来推动儿科护理上游化的工具显示出前景，因此迫切需要在社会处方研究、政策和实践中更加关注儿科人群。这需要研究人员、政策制定者和儿童健康专业人员迅速采取行动，以支持该领域的进展。
