Academic Journal
THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT APPROACH TO SOCIAL WORK IN HEALTH CARE
| Title: | THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT APPROACH TO SOCIAL WORK IN HEALTH CARE |
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| Authors: | Laetitia Petersen, Edmarie Pretorius |
| Source: | Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, Vol 58, Iss 2 (2022) |
| Subject Terms: | gauteng department of health, health care reform, health care settings, social development approach, social work in health care, transformation, Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology, HV1-9960 |
| Publisher Information: | Stellenbosch University, 2022. |
| Publication Year: | 2022 |
| Collection: | LCC:Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology |
| 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. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | Afrikaans English |
| ISSN: | 0037-8054 2312-7198 20245408 |
| Relation: | https://socialwork.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1038; https://doaj.org/toc/0037-8054; https://doaj.org/toc/2312-7198 |
| DOI: | 10.15270/58-2-1038 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/ca24ac99f2024540828f1a1e0580d627 |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.24ac99f2024540828f1a1e0580d627 |
| ISSN: | 003780542312719820245408 |
| DOI: | 10.15270/58-2-1038 |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |