Transposing.

This poem was written as a meditation on care and upholding abolition values such as building safety and repairing what is in need of revolution. Within arm's reach of a more healthful narrative, the poem describes a person who sees the world burning, and remains committed to tending to her hopeful heart and others. It is shared here to archive a remarkable moment of recognition between two artists. The story is that, while in attendance at a virtual Black community circle a few years ago, my friend, Lily, shared her collage artwork, one among them titled, Spilling Out. This image among many spectacular pieces immediately struck my spirit. It prompted me to recall a poem I had written several months before. In the spirit of call and response, I offered this poem to her and my community, extending the metaphor of spilling out, shifting contexts, and sparking dialogue on what it means for us in practice to transpose and change places in our respective fields. Lily Nimo Ngaruiya is a Black, Kenyan-American, queer artist, educator, and Black liberation seeker. Lily's watercolor collage pieces reflect the emotionality of Black womanhood and the journey of exploring her own fears and desires. Each image selected is rooted in her own intuition-restructuring, revising, and reimagining until the world within her piece feels complete. Through images, textures, and patterns, Lily aims to create a universe for Black femmes to exist fully. To view the original version of this poem, see the supplemental material section of this article online.

Stress Test.

Standard procedure prompts health professionals to ask, "Is Stress Causing My Patients' Symptoms?" With acknowledgment of the visceral ways systemic oppression gets under the skin, the poem is a meditation on new possibilities for measuring and ameliorating stress. The author has been living with chronic hives since early 2016, and over the years, doctors have continued to suggest she focus on reducing sources of stress in her life. To view the original version of this poem, see the supplemental material section of this article online.

Perspectives on Racism: Reflections on Our Collective Moral Responsibility When Leveraging Arts and Culture for Health Promotion.

In this commentary essay, I examine the collective moral responsibility of leveraging arts and culture for health promotion, and the role ethical storytelling can play in reframing how health educators promote "good health" with specific regard to the next generation of the workforce. I reflect on the impact of racism, White supremacy, and anti-Blackness when merging the arts and culture sector with public health disciplines, and close with a call to action as our niche field expands. I argue that no matter our role as artists, cultural workers, heritage holders, and/or focus within public health education and health promotion, our work is both an art and a science. Just as the language we use forms a story, the collection of scholars we choose to cite exposes a narrative. I hope this commentary encourages readers to reflect on opportunities in their work to close the health equity gap with recognition of the knowledge, skills, abilities, and capital within and across Black culture while also lifting up the community cultural wealth that exists in Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian and Pacific Islander communities.

Social prescribing outcomes: a mapping review of the evidence from 13 countries to identify key common outcomes.

Introduction: As a means for supporting a range of health and wellbeing goals, social prescribing programs have been implemented around the world. Reflecting a range of contexts, needs, innovation, and programing, a broad array of outcomes has been studied in relation to these programs. As interest in social prescribing grows, more targeted study of key outcomes and in turn evidence synthesis that can inform evidence-based practice, policy, and investment is needed. Methods and Results: This mapping review identified, described, and synthesized the broad array of social prescribing outcomes that have been studied in 13 countries and maps the outcomes that have been most commonly studied. From 87 articles included in this review, a total of 347 unique outcomes were identified, including 278 unique patient outcomes and 69 unique system outcomes. The most commonly studied categories of patient outcomes were found to be mental health, lifestyle and behavior, and patient/service user experience. The most commonly studied system outcomes were healthcare/service utilization and financial/economic outcomes. Discussion: This review highlights the value of heterogeneity and mixed methods approaches in outcomes studies for capturing nuanced experiences and outcomes in this nascent area of practice, while contributing to the advancement of evidence synthesis for social prescribing globally by quantifying and offering insight into the outcomes that have been studied to date. It also lays a foundation for the development of key common outcomes and a Core Outcomes Set for social prescribing. Additionally, it identified key outcomes that, given their relationship to critical health and social issues, warrant both broader and deeper study.