Social Prescription
Research
Mass Cultural Council uses the term social prescribing to describe when a health provider refers a patient to a partnered arts and cultural organization in the community for the benefit of support, connection, inspiration and/or well-being.
Recent News at Intersections of Arts, Culture, & Health
General Effects of Arts & Culture on Health
- TheNeuroArts Blueprint: Advancing the Science of Arts, Health, and Wellbeing
- Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America
- Arts & Culture in Public Health Framework
- World Health Organization’s Health Evidence Network Synthesis Report 67: What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being? (Summary)
- The Arts and Health Equity: Four Opportunities for Impact
- Art & Well-Being: Toward a Culture of Health
- Arts, Health, and Well-Being in America
- Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Well-being(from the UK)
WATCH: Why Medicine Needs Art
WATCH: Arts and Public Health – Daisy Fancourt/Serious Science
Effects of Arts & Culture on Specific Health Concerns
- Engaging Arts & Culture for Vaccine Confidence Field Guides (link includes research, field guides, program-building tools, and more!)
- The use of music in the treatment and management of serious mental illness: A global scoping review of the literature
- WE-Making: How Arts & Culture Unite People to Work Toward Community Well-Being
- How the arts can improve mental health, especially during the pandemic
- Anti-Racism Arts Response
- Arts, Culture, and Community Mental Health
- How to Engage the Arts to Build COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence: Creative Approaches to COVID-19 Vaccination to Unite the Arts and Sciences
- COVID-19 Arts Response
- Engaging Arts and Culture for Vaccine Confidence A Guide for Building Programs and Creative Campaigns
Information about Prescribing Arts & Culture
- Why doctors are increasingly prescribing nature
- What does social prescribing look like? Mapping meaningful outcomes
- Denmark and social prescription
- Canada and social prescription
WATCH: Arts should be available on prescription
Organizations and Other States Conducting Related Research
- The EpiArts Lab: Exploring the impact of arts and cultural engagement on population health outcomes in the US through epidemiological analyses of US cohort studies
- International Arts and Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins Medicine
- NOAH: National Organization for Arts in Health
- Center for Arts in Medicine (CAM) at University of Florida with national researchon arts and health
- Arts and Health, State of RI, Department of Health, State Arts and Health Plan – a public health roadmap for advancing the integration of arts and health for the state
