NEET youth – vulnerabilities and possible responses
Who are NEET youth, what factors keep them from entering the world of work, and how can art, culture, and social prescribing offer concrete solutions?
Are museums good for your health?
Museums are becoming spaces for healthcare, connection and wellbeing. From contemplative exercises to cultural prescribing, this is how art and health come ...
Art Cure: a watershed book in the debate on art, culture, health and wellbeing
Art and health: the book Art Cure brings together scientific evidence for how artistic engagement improves wellbeing throughout life.
Caring for the carers through the arts
The wellbeing of healthcare workers is increasingly at risk. The creative arts and art therapy can help doctors and nurses to manage stress, burnout and ...
Bringing a beat to silent surroundings: music, dance and art in prisons
What role can music and dance play in prisons? An in-depth look at scientific evidence that highlights their impact on wellbeing, mental health and dignity.
Social prescribing for chronic disease management
Social prescribing in chronic disease management: the role of link workers, scientific evidence and benefits for patients, communities and healthcare systems.
The power of social participation
How art and community participation can build cohesion, trust and wellbeing in communities: the social power of culture, as explained by research.
Link workers – building a personalised approach to public health
Read the article that explores how social prescribing strengthens health, community and primary care through new roles and integrated approaches
Art and health: reducing inequalities through cultural participation
Cultural participation can reduce inequalities and improve health: discover global data and scientific evidence.
Beating loneliness in Alzheimer’s with a café
Alzheimer’s disease: causes, symptoms, stages and future prospects of a disease that affects millions worldwide.
Health and spirituality
There is growing interest in an outlook on health that champions spirituality and the complexity and diversity of the human experience.
Social prescribing: integrated mental health strategies for adolescents
This innovative, personal approach revolves around young people and connects them with community resources, helping them rediscover a sense of belonging.
Social prescribing: the model expanding the notion of care
Social Prescribing is a model that expands the treatment options available to primary care physicians, and more and more countries are implementing it.
A new culture of healthy longevity
Loneliness is one of the great silent emergencies of our time. It is revealed as a cross-cutting condition that affects young and old.
Loneliness: the invisible epidemic
Loneliness is one of the great silent emergencies of our time. It manifests itself as a widespread condition that affects both young and old.
Art and health: a proven connection
Painting, singing, dancing and writing are not only passions: they’re tools for treatment, prevention and well-being that everyone can access.
Health and culture. The economic value of cultural engagement
Art and culture not only enrich society, but also contribute to physical and mental wellbeing, by reducing the pressure on health services.
Graphic Medicine: a powerful health education tool
In recent years, comics have emerged as effective tool for prevention, health promotion, health education. Visual language makes science more accessible.