ReviewThe Lancet regional health. Western Pacific2023
Implementation of social prescribing: lessons learnt from contextualising an intervention in a community hospital in Singapore.
Review in The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness and strategies of social prescribing in Korea using a machine learning topic modeling.BMC health services research · 2025Pooled it
- Working between systems: an umbrella review of care navigator roles and responsibilities.Frontiers in health services · 2025Pooled it
- Pilot implementation and evaluation of a social risk screening tool for hospitalised patients in Singapore.Journal of hospital medicine · 2026Article
- A stage-sensitive approach to evaluating social prescribing in complex and evolving health systems.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2026Review
- Organization and implementation of social prescribing in the Western Pacific Region: a scoping review.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2026Review
- Unlocking the potential of social prescribing for healthy ageing in the Western Pacific.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2026Article
- Building and evaluating a social prescribing program for carer-employees: an intervention study.Frontiers in health services · 2026Article
- Beyond Glycaemia: Socioeconomic Factors and Diabetes Distress are Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life in People with Type 2 Diabetes.Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies · 2025Article
- Expanding the role of community hospitals to promote population health in Singapore.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2025Review
- Does social prescribing address social determinants of health?Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Health and Community Care Workers' Knowledge and Perceptions of Social Prescribing in Singapore.Annals of geriatric medicine and research · 2024Article
- Advancing social prescribing in Singapore: an update on progress.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2024Article
- A Systematic Review of the Reliability and Validity of the Patient Activation Measure Tool.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- The challenges and rewards of social prescribing in family medicine.Frontiers in health services · 2024Article
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- Are physicians ready for precision antibiotic prescribing? A qualitative analysis of the acceptance of artificial intelligence-enabled clinical decision support systems in India and Singapore.Journal of global antimicrobial resistance · 2023Article
- Global Trends in Social Prescribing: Web-Based Crawling Approach.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Community hospitals of the future-challenges and opportunities.Frontiers in health services · 2023Article
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Abstract
The need to develop holistic public health approaches that go beyond treating the biological causes of ill health, to addressing the social determinants of health, have been highlighted in the global health agenda. Social prescribing, where care professionals link individuals to community resources that tackle social needs have gained increasing traction worldwide. In Singapore, SingHealth Community Hospitals introduced social prescribing in July 2019 to manage the complex health and social needs of the aging populace. Faced with the paucity of evidence on the effectiveness of social prescribing and its implementation, implementers had to contextualise the theory of social prescribing to patients' needs and setting of practice. Using an iterative approach, the implementation team constantly reviewed and adapted practices, work processes and outcome measurement tools based on data and stakeholder feedback to address implementation challenges. As social prescribing continues to scale in Singapore and take root in the Western Pacific region, agile implementation and continued evaluation of programmes to build an evidence pool will help to guide best practices. The aim of this paper is to review the implementation of a social prescribing programme from the exploratory phase to full implementation, and draw lessons learned in the process.
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