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First paragraph: Husk et al., stated ‘social prescribing is the topic of the moment’ (p. 6 [1]) in 2019, and this remains the case. Globally, societies are struggling to find solutions to growing health inequalities and the impact of social determinants on creating (ill) health are increasingly recognised. Social prescribing is regarded as a way of mitigating health inequalities through better support of people in deprived areas [2] and has become more important post-COVID19 [3].

In the pursuit of healthy eating, as with many other health goals, most benefits for one's health are not realized immediately, but instead occur after a person engages in consistent patterns of healthy eating across many weeks, months, and years. Thus, being able to represent temporally distant benefits when making seemingly trivial daily eating decisions (e.g., choosing fruit salad rather than ice cream for dessert) should be a key determinant of healthy eating. Here, we tested a priori, pr...

Smoking is responsible for over 8 million deaths globally per annum. While socially disadvantaged communities are disproportionately affected, few interventions effectively reach these groups. We progressed a participatory action research (PAR) study on smoking-related health inequalities in the context of the current UK cost-of-living crisis. We worked with people living in deprived neighbourhoods in rural northeast Scotland. The objective was to engage affected communities together with the...

Reducing inequalities in preconception health and care is critical to improving the health and life chances of current and future generations. A hybrid workshop was held at the 2023 UK Preconception Early and Mid-Career Researchers (EMCR) Network conference to co-develop recommendations on ways to address inequalities in preconception health and care. The workshop engaged multi-disciplinary professionals across diverse career stages and people with lived experience (total n = 69). Interactive...