Fixsen, Alison, Barrett, Simon and Simonovich, Michal 2022. Supporting Vulnerable Populations During the Pandemic: Stakeholders’ Experiences and Perceptions of Social Prescribing in Scotland During Covid-19. Qualitative Health Research. 32 (4), pp. 670-682. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323211064229
| Title | Supporting Vulnerable Populations During the Pandemic: Stakeholders’ Experiences and Perceptions of Social Prescribing in Scotland During Covid-19 |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Fixsen, Alison, Barrett, Simon and Simonovich, Michal |
| Abstract | Social prescribing schemes refer people toward personalized health/wellbeing interventions in local communities. Since schemes hold different representations of social prescribing, responses to the pandemic crisis will vary. Intersectionality states that social divisions build on one another, sustaining unequal health outcomes. We conducted and inductively analysed interviews with twenty-three professional and volunteer stakeholders across three social prescribing schemes in urban and rural Scotland at the start and end of year one of the pandemic. Concerns included identifying and digitally supporting disadvantaged and vulnerable individuals and reduced capacity statutory and third-sector services, obliging link workers to assume new practical and psychological responsibilities. Social prescribing services in Scotland, we argue, represent a collage of practices superimposed on a struggling healthcare system. Those in need of such services are unlikely to break through disadvantage whilst situated within a social texture wherein inequalities of education, health and environmental arrangements broadly intersect with one another. |
| Keywords | social prescribing |
| qualitative studies | |
| Covid-19 | |
| third sector | |
| vulnerable communities | |
| Journal | Qualitative Health Research |
| Journal citation | 32 (4), pp. 670-682 |
| ISSN | 1049-7323 |
| 1552-7557 | |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publisher | Sage |
| Publisher's version | License CC BY 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323211064229 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published online | 30 Dec 2021 |
| Published in print | 2022 |