Project Lead: Julia Kern
Authors: Julia Kern, Romy Schönegger
Publication: November 2025
Language: English (with German summary)
Social prescribing (SP) is a complex intervention that aims to improve care by including regional non-medical services. Realist methodology can help explain how such interventions are supposed to work. The aim of this report was therefor to determine what we can learn about the Austrian SP process based on available realist research. Starting from the Austrian ideal model of SP, findings from realist research were incorporated into a narrative description of each step, highlighting which aspects of SP are already underpinned by theoretical foundations and which require further research.