Interest in art’s benefit to health grows as Wales and Greece take major steps

Global interest in the health benefits of the arts is gaining momentum with more governments recognising that creativity should be embedded across national health systems. Wales, a devolved nation of the UK with its own parliament, the Senedd, and Greece, are the latest countries exploring in depth how the arts can boost health and wellbeing.

“With UK healthcare embracing a shift from treatment to prevention and hospital to community as part of the NHS’s ten-year plan, the arts are primed to play an important role in health system transformation across the four [UK] nations,” says Stephen Stapleton, the co-director of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab, an affiliate to the World Health Organization (WHO), which has been at the forefront of integrating the arts in clinical and public health globally.

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