PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Daniel F Morse AU - Sahil Sandhu AU - Kate Mulligan AU - Stephanie Tierney AU - Marie Polley AU - Bogdan Chiva Giurca AU - Siân Slade AU - Sónia Dias AU - Kamal R Mahtani AU - Leanne Wells AU - Huali Wang AU - Bo ‍Zhao AU - Cristiano Emanuel Marta De Figueiredo AU - Jan Joost Meijs AU - Hae Kweun Nam AU - Kheng Hock Lee AU - Carolyn Wallace AU - Megan Elliott AU - Juan Manuel Mendive AU - David Robinson AU - Miia Palo AU - Wolfram Herrmann AU - Rasmus Østergaard Nielsen AU - Kerryn Husk TI - Global developments in social prescribing AID - 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008524 DP - 2022 May 01 TA - BMJ Global Health PG - e008524 VI - 7 IP - 5 4099 - http://gh.bmj.com/content/7/5/e008524.short 4100 - http://gh.bmj.com/content/7/5/e008524.full SO - BMJ Global Health2022 May 01; 7 AB - Social prescribing is an approach that aims to improve health and well-being. It connects individuals to non-clinical services and supports that address social needs, such as those related to loneliness, housing instability and mental health. At the person level, social prescribing can give individuals the knowledge, skills, motivation and confidence to manage their own health and well-being. At the society level, it can facilitate greater collaboration across health, social, and community sectors to promote integrated care and move beyond the traditional biomedical model of health. While the term social prescribing was first popularised in the UK, this practice has become more prevalent and widely publicised internationally over the last decade. This paper aims to illuminate the ways social prescribing has been conceptualised and implemented across 17 countries in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. We draw from the ‘Beyond the Building Blocks’ framework to describe the essential inputs for adopting social prescribing into policy and practice, related to service delivery; social determinants and household production of health; workforce; leadership and governance; financing, community organisations and societal partnerships; health technology; and information, learning and accountability. Cross-cutting lessons can inform country and regional efforts to tailor social prescribing models to best support local needs.Data sharing not applicable as no datasets generated and/or analysed for this study.