We identified hundreds of terms in our research. Below are the criteria we used to categorise the hundreds of terms we identified in our research as either core social prescribing terms or non-core social prescribing terms.
The development of the glossary focused on the core terms only. All terms A-Z contains a list of every core term that we identified in our research.
Core Terms
Definition: A term used in everyday language in social prescribing by social prescribing practitioners, professionals and people who engage with social prescribing, that specifically relates to and/or describes an essential part of the social prescribing process.
Inclusion Criteria: A term that specifically relates to and/or describes an essential part of the social prescribing process. The term is used in communications to improve individual physical, mental and social health and well-being throughout the social prescribing process and/or when improving the wider determinants of health for individuals throughout the social prescribing process.
Exclusion Criteria: A term commonly used across health and social care/ statutory/ non-statutory service delivery BUT that does not relate to and/or describe a central and/or essential part of the social prescribing process.
Non-Core Terms
Definition: A term used across health and social care/ statutory/ non-statutory service delivery, that is associated with social prescribing but that does not relate to and/or describe an essential part of the social prescribing process.
Inclusion Criteria: A term that is not a core social prescribing term but one that is used in communications to improve individual physical, mental and social health and well-being throughout the social prescribing process and/or when improving the wider determinants of health for individuals throughout the social prescribing process.
Exclusion Criteria: The word is a common term used across health and social care/ statutory/ non-statutory service delivery but is one that is not specifically associated with social prescribing.