By Elaine T. Jurkowski MSW PhD,MSW, PhD Jurkowski Elaine T.,PhD Keefe Robert,The Social Work Section Of The American Public Health Association
Public overall healthiness social paintings is an interdisciplinary, epidemiologically orientated method of bettering human overall healthiness and health and wellbeing. approximately one sector of all social employees within the usa at the moment paintings in scientific or public well-being settings, a host that's anticipated to extend considerably in coming years. This guide, written and edited via revered leaders of the Social paintings component of the yankee Public well-being organization (APHA), describes the swiftly increasing roles of public wellbeing and fitness social staff as those disciplines proceed to hitch forces.
The guide describes how the alliance of social paintings and public wellbeing and fitness has already made major growth and ways that it is going to extra increase health and wellbeing care within the usa. It addresses task possibilities for public wellbeing and fitness social employees in such fields as disorder prevention, health and wellbeing merchandising, baby welfare, gerontology, catastrophe reaction, trauma intervention, substance abuse, outreach companies, and advocacy. It additionally covers public overall healthiness social paintings with exact populations and in local, rural, and international settings.
Key Features:
- Authored through hugely revered APHA Social paintings members
- Describes the ways that the alliance of social paintings and public overall healthiness is bettering healthiness care
- Highlights key settings and task possibilities for public well-being social workers
- Addresses public health and wellbeing social paintings with targeted populations and its courting to such scientific themes as power stipulations, HIV/AIDS, disabilities, and more
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