Signal Lancet viewpoint counts 23 US arts prescribing programmes and Social Prescribing USA about 250 providers

Summary

The Music for Health and Wellbeing Initiative reports that social prescribing with music is accelerating in the United States. A 2025 viewpoint in The Lancet Public Health identified 23 arts and social prescribing programmes across the country. The Initiative reads this as evidence that music lessons, concert access and group music-making are becoming part of care pathways. At the ecosystem level, Social Prescribing USA counts around 250 providers engaged in the practice. States are also moving, with Massachusetts launching the first statewide social prescribing ecosystem with Art Pharmacy and other states building similar systems. The Initiative suggests the US may be shifting from isolated pilots toward a more systematic, multi-stakeholder model.