Health Care Social Work : A Global Perspective

Health Care Social Work examines the ways in which various nations'' health care systems affect one another and provides readers with new information about health care social workers'' efforts within a global context. The book encourages readers to compare the histories, political and social influences, contemporary practices, theoretical foundations, and trends of health care social work within a broad frame of reference.

Health Care Social Work aims to directly empower health care social workers around the world by providing valuable new information about the breadth and depth of the profession''s health care contributions, legislative and policy influences upon practice, and implications for future practice and growth in different nations. Written by scholars and practitioners of health care social work from around the world, chapters encourage comparative analysis of distant health care social work practice as a means of supporting meaningful change on a local level and contributing to public health in a way that transcends boundaries and makes a difference globally. Readers will gain an opportunity to examine their assumptions about health care social work practice and reflect meaningfully upon less familiar techniques and approaches as a way of prompting problem-solving with an expanded frame of reference.