THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT APPROACH TO SOCIAL WORK IN HEALTH CARE
Social work in health care delivers essential services to South Africa’s vulnerable populations. The social development approach attempts to address inequalities and uplift vulnerable people. An explanatory-sequential mixed methodological study explored the application of the social development appr...
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2022-06-01
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| description | Social work in health care delivers essential services to South Africa’s vulnerable populations. The social development approach attempts to address inequalities and uplift vulnerable people. An explanatory-sequential mixed methodological study explored the application of the social development approach to social work in health care in the Gauteng Department of Health. The findings indicated that social workers in health care deliver a diverse service in attending to patients’ needs and are ideally situated to address and implement the social development approach. However, challenges are experienced in the absence of strategic policies regarding the implementation of the social development approach in health care. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ca24ac99f2024540828f1a1e0580d6272023-11-22T09:12:07ZafrStellenbosch UniversitySocial Work/Maatskaplike Werk0037-80542312-71982022-06-0158210.15270/58-2-1038THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT APPROACH TO SOCIAL WORK IN HEALTH CARELaetitia Petersen0Edmarie Pretorius1University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaUniversity of the WitwatersrandSocial work in health care delivers essential services to South Africa’s vulnerable populations. The social development approach attempts to address inequalities and uplift vulnerable people. An explanatory-sequential mixed methodological study explored the application of the social development approach to social work in health care in the Gauteng Department of Health. The findings indicated that social workers in health care deliver a diverse service in attending to patients’ needs and are ideally situated to address and implement the social development approach. However, challenges are experienced in the absence of strategic policies regarding the implementation of the social development approach in health care.https://socialwork.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1038gauteng department of healthhealth care reformhealth care settingssocial development approachsocial work in health caretransformation |
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| title | THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT APPROACH TO SOCIAL WORK IN HEALTH CARE |
| title_full | THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT APPROACH TO SOCIAL WORK IN HEALTH CARE |
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| title_short | THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT APPROACH TO SOCIAL WORK IN HEALTH CARE |
| title_sort | social development approach to social work in health care |
| topic | gauteng department of health health care reform health care settings social development approach social work in health care transformation |
| url | https://socialwork.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1038 |
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