Arts and health: Websites

A Special Interest Group of the Royal Society for Public Health which focuses on arts, health and wellbeing.

A key site for helping practitioners and researchers evaluate the impact of arts and health projects.

This database covers Latin American and Caribbean health sciences literature.

This organisation promotes collaboration to enable creative health to become integral to health and social care and wider systems.

Creative and inspiring approaches to healthcare, backed by research.

Creative therapies for relieving the stress of dealing with cancer and cancer treatments.

Organisation exploring the use of arts and culture to support health and wellbeing.

Organisation exploring the impact of creativity, culture and the arts on health and well-being. Based at Manchester Metropolitan University.

An NHS Network which aims to promote, share and encourage the use of art and creativity in the healthcare environment.

The professional organisation for art therapists in the UK.

This site includes case studies and other resources relating to culture and health.

An interdisciplinary research initiative at the University of Reading looking into ways the arts can be used to improve health – including prevention, management and treatment of a wide range of health and social conditions.

This organisation is free join and aims to develop the role of culture in wellbeing and to promote and support arts in health activity. Their site includes useful resources and links.

A charity dedicated to improving and protecting the health of people. It has a Special Interest Group focusing on Arts, Health and Well-being.

The Network brings together health professionals, researchers, academics, social prescribing practitioners, representatives from the community and voluntary sector, commissioners and funders, patients and citizens to share knowledge and best practice, to support social prescribing at a local and national levels and to inform good quality research and evaluation.