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The RSPH Working Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing, chaired by John Wynn Owen has published its research report:‘Arts, Health and Wellbeing Beyond the Millennium: How far have we come in 15 years?’ The report will be launched at the International Conference ‘Culture Health and Wellbeing’ being held from the 24th-26th June in Bristol.
 

The report looks at the extent to which the Windsor Declaration, which was created after the Nuffield Trust’s conferences on Arts and Health in 1998 and 1999, has been realised.

It provides a review of the evidence for the benefits of the arts to health, as well as the policy context of commissioning arts and health initiatives. It also highlights the potential role arts can play within professional education contexts (for example within medical training) as well as within therapy, healthcare and community settings. It includes case studies and subjective reflections on how the arts can interact with health.
 
The report concludes looking at what remains to be done in developing the arts in support of culture, health and wellbeing and how to achieve it.
 
RSPH are committed to improving population health using community-focussed interventions and while arts-led initiative are often underplayed, they can provide extensive outreach particularly in hard to reach communities.
 
We believe creative arts need to be recognised in its own right, in the same way as physical health and mental health, through both policy commitment and national action plans.
 
This vision is something RSPH will be campaigning about for the next five years.
 
For further information and to view the full report please visit www.rsph.org.uk/artsandhealth

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For more information
Kate Sanger, Marketing and Communications Manager, RSPH
[email protected] 020 7265 7334
 
Notes to editors
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