Social Prescribing (SP) has been defined as a non-medical intervention aimed to support individuals to build-up a wellbeing path through the connection between their personal resources and community resources. It is a social response to social needs that affects mental health and wellbeing. From 2019 the national healthcare system in the UK, with the NHS Long Term Plan, has given priority to the universal access to Social Prescribing, extending the target group to all citizens, including children and young people (CYP). As CYP are those who mainly suffer from loneliness and social isolation and have lower access to public services for mental health, SP pilots have started to collect outcomes on the efficacy of this intervention on this target group. In parallel, Social Prescribing has started to become a complex intervention and is gaining popularity on a global level. Understanding SP as a complex system, especially for vulnerable young people, means understanding how the system in which the intervention is implemented needs to adapt and how it orients the design of the service to be more prepared in actively engage with multi-actor dynamics and interdependencies in complex service systems. Considering the specific field of Social Prescribing for YP, the following research aims to explore how Social Prescribing contributes in addressing young people’s needs across care ecosystems co-creating value across the network of actors involved. The thesis is grounded on theories from service ecosystem and care ecosystem to understand the dynamics across actors in their resource integrating process, based on empirical study from the UK and Italy.
Il Social Prescribing (SP) è stato definito come un intervento non clinico volto a sostenere gli individui a costruire un percorso di benessere attraverso la connessione tra le loro risorse personali e le risorse della comunità. Si tratta di una risposta sociale ai bisogni sociali che riguardano la salute e il benessere mentale. Dal 2019 il sistema sanitario nazionale del Regno Unito, con l'NHS Long Term Plan, ha dato priorità all'accesso universale alla prescrizione sociale, estendendo il gruppo target a tutti i cittadini, compresi i bambini e i giovani (CYP). Poiché i bambini e i giovani sono coloro che soffrono principalmente di solitudine e isolamento sociale e hanno un minore accesso ai servizi pubblici per la salute mentale, i progetti pilota di SP hanno iniziato a raccogliere i risultati dell'efficacia di questo intervento su questo gruppo target. Parallelamente, la prescrizione sociale ha iniziato a diventare un intervento complesso e sta guadagnando popolarità a livello globale. Comprendere la SP come un sistema complesso, soprattutto per i giovani vulnerabili, significa capire come il sistema in cui l'intervento viene attuato debba adattarsi alle esigenze specifiche che emergono e come orientare la progettazione del servizio per essere più preparati a impegnarsi attivamente con le dinamiche multi-attore e le interdipendenze nei sistemi di servizi complessi. Considerando il campo specifico del Social Prescribing per i giovani, la seguente ricerca mira a esplorare come il Social Prescribing contribuisca ad affrontare i bisogni dei giovani attraverso gli ecosistemi di cura, co-creando valore attraverso la rete di attori coinvolti. La tesi si basa sulle teorie dell'ecosistema dei servizi e dell'ecosistema di cura per comprendere le dinamiche tra gli attori nel loro processo di integrazione delle risorse, sulla base di uno studio empirico condotto tra Regno Unito e Italia.
Social prescribing for vulnerable young people : participatory and care ecosystems approaches
Farina, Isabel
2023/2024
Abstract
Social Prescribing (SP) has been defined as a non-medical intervention aimed to support individuals to build-up a wellbeing path through the connection between their personal resources and community resources. It is a social response to social needs that affects mental health and wellbeing. From 2019 the national healthcare system in the UK, with the NHS Long Term Plan, has given priority to the universal access to Social Prescribing, extending the target group to all citizens, including children and young people (CYP). As CYP are those who mainly suffer from loneliness and social isolation and have lower access to public services for mental health, SP pilots have started to collect outcomes on the efficacy of this intervention on this target group. In parallel, Social Prescribing has started to become a complex intervention and is gaining popularity on a global level. Understanding SP as a complex system, especially for vulnerable young people, means understanding how the system in which the intervention is implemented needs to adapt and how it orients the design of the service to be more prepared in actively engage with multi-actor dynamics and interdependencies in complex service systems. Considering the specific field of Social Prescribing for YP, the following research aims to explore how Social Prescribing contributes in addressing young people’s needs across care ecosystems co-creating value across the network of actors involved. The thesis is grounded on theories from service ecosystem and care ecosystem to understand the dynamics across actors in their resource integrating process, based on empirical study from the UK and Italy.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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