![Illustration: A paper prescription note reads “ 15 min walks, 2/day” and “Visit a museum with peers, 2/month.” It is clipped on a grey clipboard held by one hand while the other signs the prescription. The illustration is on a yellow-speckled background.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/HarvardPublicHealth_social-prescribing-400x300.jpg)
Doctor’s orders—head to the museum instead of the pharmacy
A movement is taking shape in the UK and elsewhere to tackle underlying factors affecting health. Can it work in the US?
Kalpana Jain, a one-time health editor at The Times of India, is a writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and senior ethics and religion editor at The Conversation.