Social Prescribing Evidence for Refugee Populations: A Rapid Realist Review

A rapid realist review synthesizing international evidence on social prescribing and social-capital interventions for refugee, asylum-seeker, and forcibly displaced populations. Victoria Touzel authored this dataset, which includes findings from 39 studies identified from 7,436 records covering literature from 2014 to 2024. The synthesis is organized into intervention families and program theories.

Use Cases

• Identify effective intervention families for refugee support based on the five identified approaches (barrier-reduction, co-produced navigation, etc.)
• Analyze program theories for social prescribing based on the 15 prioritized Context-Mechanism-Outcome configurations
• Evaluate evidence strength for different support stages based on the concentration of actionable insights in appointment and onward referral
• Inform co-production design in health services based on the identified cross-cutting concepts of bidirectional exchange and safety

Strengths

• Synthesizes evidence from 39 studies identified through a systematic search of six databases
• Includes literature from a defined time range (2014–2024)
• Results are organized into five distinct intervention families and 15 program theories
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• The description notes evidence limitations restrict wider generalizability regarding population reporting and marginalized subgroups

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

RAMESES-compliant rapid realist review supported by an expert advisory board, with searches across six databases supplemented by grey literature.

Time Range

2014–2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-08 05:48:29; freshness should be verified

Geography

International evidence