Social prescriptions: Why some health-care practitioners are prescribing food to their patients

By Matthew Little, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria
Eleah Stringer, Research assistant, School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria
Warren Dodd, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo

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.

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