Fri. May 17, 2019 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Room 3 (2F Room B-1)

Organizer: Yuiko Nagamine(Chiba University, Japan)
Chair: Satoko Hotta(Keio University, Japan)

It is increasingly recognised that socioecoomic and enviromental factos have a large impact on the status of our health. The need for a holistic review of people and to intervene as necessary in the social deteriminants of their ill health in order to support their independent living in the community is being stressed.
We would like to hold a sympoisum to introduce to a concept called social prescribing as a response to this situation and give its general overview – why, what it is, its benefits as well as its challenges, and how social prescribing service can ge delivered with example cases from Japan and the UK, followed by panel discussion and answering questions from the audience.

The provisional structure of our proposed symposium is as follows:-
1) Opening remark – (Professor Satoko Hotta)
2) Concept and why social prescribing? – (Professor Satoko Hotta)
3) Origins of social prescribing and case studies in the UK – (Dr Patrick Hutt)
4) Case studies in Japan –(Dr Daisuke Nishioka)
5) The role of medical generalism in social prescribing and differences/similarities between the UK and Japan – (Dr Noriaki Sawa)
6) Discussion – global challenges, actions and lessons
7) Questions