Addicott

Allen

Antonovsky

Barraket

Baum

Benson

Bertotti

Borzaga

Bourdieu

Brandsen

Cam Donaldson

Coleman

Cook

Cooke

Cooney

Dawes

De Leeuw

Dees

Defourny

Department of Health and Social Security

Dixon-Woods

Donaldson

Drennan

Farmer

Ferguson

Foot

France

Gardin

Gidley

Glasgow Caledonian University

Hanlon

Harris

Homer-Dixon

Kivimäki

Kretzman

Krupa

Lincoln

Lomas

Lysaght

Mancino

Mandiberg

Marmot

McKinlay

Michael J. Roy

Millar

Mooney

Nussbaum

O'Mara-Eves

Pearce

Peredo

Pestoff

Polanyi

Popay

Putnam

Rachel Baker

Scambler

Spear

Stryjan

Susan Kerr

Teasdale

Tedmanson

Townsend

Tsouros

Uphoff

Vidal

Warner

Whitehead

Whittemore

Williams

Yunus

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Social Science & Medicine

The potential of social enterprise to enhance health and well-being: A model and systematic review

In recent years civil society organisations, associations, institutions and groups have become increasingly involved at various levels in the governance of healthcare systems around the world. In the UK, particularly in the context of recent reform of the National Health Service in England, social enterprise – that part of the third sector engaged in trading – has come to the fore as a potential model of state-sponsored healthcare delivery. However, to date, there has been no review of evidence on the outcomes of social enterprise involvement in healthcare, nor in the ability of social enterprise to address health inequalities more widely through action on the social determinants of health. Following the development of an initial conceptual model, this systematic review identifies and synthesises evidence from published empirical research on the impact of social enterprise activity on health outcomes and their social determinants. Ten health and social science databases were searched with no date delimiters set. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied prior to data extraction and quality appraisal. Heterogeneity in the outcomes assessed precluded meta-analysis/meta-synthesis and so the results are therefore presented in narrative form. Five studies met the inclusion criteria. The included studies provide limited evidence that social enterprise activity can impact positively on mental health, self-reliance/esteem and health behaviours, reduce stigmatization and build social capital, all of which can contribute to overall health and well-being. No empirical research was identified that examined social enterprise as an alternative mode of healthcare delivery. Due to the limited evidence available, we discuss the relationship between the evidence found and other literature not included in the review. There is a clear need for research to better understand and evidence causal mechanisms and to explore the impact of social enterprise activity, and wider civil society actors, upon a range of intermediate and long-term public health outcomes

Roy, Michael J.

Donaldson, Cam

Baker, Rachel

Kerr, Susan

ResearchOnline@GCU

The potential of social enterprise to enhance health and well-being: a model and systematic review

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The potential of social enterprise to enhance health and well-being: a model and systematic review

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