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HealthcarePapers 23(4) June 2026 : 49-55.doi:10.12927/hcpap.2026.27927
Commentary

Bridging the Gap In Social Prescribing: “Lived Territories” As Community Pivots for Proximity-Based Health Systems

Lara Gautier and Géraldine Layani

Abstract

Mulligan's paper makes an important and persuasive case that social prescribing should be understood as strategic infrastructure rather than as a marginal program. However, for that claim to hold in practice, the argument needs to be more clearly grounded in three operational conditions. The first one is that community action must be recognized upstream of healthcare access. Secondly, primary care must be repositioned as a local clinical infrastructure responsible for a population. Finally, the model requires an explicit territorial architecture of governance, financing and accountability.

 

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