Young people were experiencing increasing rates of loneliness well before the pandemic shut things down.
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Social prescribing programmes could provide children and adolescents much needed opportunities to socialise and be active.
Even the Victorians knew the powerful effect music has on mental health.
A new review finds an absence of evidence for social prescribing.
Food security is crucial to disease prevention and management, so prescribing healthy foods and reducing barriers to better diets makes sense. But food prescriptions should not be immune to scrutiny.
People can counter the helplessness felt during the pandemic and build power by creating a sense of purpose and community amid the confusion of COVID-19.
Research shows hobbies may lower levels of depression.
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How gardening can make you happier and healthier.
Older men are more at risk of loneliness than woman. Feeling isolated increases the risk of anxiety and depression.
Arts on prescription are changing the way we treat health problems.
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Senior Lecturer and Ethics Coordinator for the School of Social Sciences Science and Technology, University of Westminster
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Geography, University of Salford
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Senior Lecturer, Community Engagement and Social Care, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Lecturer and Programme Leader, BA International Tourism and Events Management, Glasgow Caledonian University
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PhD Researcher in Systems Science, University of Hull
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Reader in Health Services Research, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Mental Health, University of Reading
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Assistant Professor, Social & Behavioural Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Professor of Clinical Pharmaceutics, University of Central Lancashire
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Head of Personalised Medicine and Health, University of Leeds
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Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) and Associate Fellow of the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC), Sheffield Hallam University
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo
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