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A STATEMENT OF SCOPE AND CREDO OF SOCIAL WORK IN HEALTH CARE
As the voice of social workers in the health care delivery system, Social Work in Health Care is concerned about the quality of human life as reflected in the spectrum of services used by the patient and his family. Progress in medical care is uneven. Scientific strides in the biological, physiological, chemical, and pharmaceutical components in preventing and treating disease have not been matched with corresponding advances in psychosocial treatment and prevention of dysfunction. The ability t o help with the psychological, sociological, and physical consequences of illness has not kept pace with the technological ability t o sustain and prolong life. We believe that the social worker, wherever located in the health care network, is committed t o skilled, effectively delivered service t o both patients and families in relationship t o the particular illness that necessitates entry into the system. Equally important is our responsibility t o influence those psychosocial factors that predispose to illness, precipitate illness, or perpetuate illness. Social workers have a responsibility in prevention and rehabilitation as well as amelioration and cure. In Social Work in Health Care the nature of the health care network and the impact of its institutions on the life quality of the community will be considered. There is a need t o connect the sick and the well, Everyman at different times. What does the institution owe the community? What does the community owe the institution? Each gets something from the other. Each gives up something t o have the other. How are their interests blended? How can the health care institution in the broad sense organize itself for response t o changing needs? The journal is committed t o searching inquiry on these and other life quality issues. We look t o practitioners, supervisors, administrators, teachers and researchers in all settings within the health care network, and t o academia for their findings as well as their formulations of issues and questions. Contributions from disciplines other than social work Social Work in Health Care, Vol. 1(1), Fall 1975
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will appear as they reflect the joining of our commitment t o that of our colleagues in health care. Because its concerns are human, rather than national or ethnic, the journal is committed t o international readership and contribution.
Social Work in Health Care Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wshc20
The Humanization of Health Care Haworth Editorial Submission Published online: 26 Oct 2008.
To cite this article: Haworth Editorial Submission (1975) The Humanization of Health Care, Social Work in Health Care, 1:1, 5-6, DOI: 10.1300/J010v01n01_02 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J010v01n01_02
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THE HUMANIZATION OF HEALTH
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A STATEMENT OF SCOPE AND CREDO OF SOCIAL WORK IN HEALTH CARE
As the voice of social workers in the health care delivery system, Social Work in Health Care is concerned about the quality of human life as reflected in the spectrum of services used by the patient and his family. Progress in medical care is uneven. Scientific strides in the biological, physiological, chemical, and pharmaceutical components in preventing and treating disease have not been matched with corresponding advances in psychosocial treatment and prevention of dysfunction. The ability t o help with the psychological, sociological, and physical consequences of illness has not kept pace with the technological ability t o sustain and prolong life. We believe that the social worker, wherever located in the health care network, is committed t o skilled, effectively delivered service t o both patients and families in relationship t o the particular illness that necessitates entry into the system. Equally important is our responsibility t o influence those psychosocial factors that predispose to illness, precipitate illness, or perpetuate illness. Social workers have a responsibility in prevention and rehabilitation as well as amelioration and cure. In Social Work in Health Care the nature of the health care network and the impact of its institutions on the life quality of the community will be considered. There is a need t o connect the sick and the well, Everyman at different times. What does the institution owe the community? What does the community owe the institution? Each gets something from the other. Each gives up something t o have the other. How are their interests blended? How can the health care institution in the broad sense organize itself for response t o changing needs? The journal is committed t o searching inquiry on these and other life quality issues. We look t o practitioners, supervisors, administrators, teachers and researchers in all settings within the health care network, and t o academia for their findings as well as their formulations of issues and questions. Contributions from disciplines other than social work Social Work in Health Care, Vol. 1(1), Fall 1975
5
SOCIAL WORK IN HEALTH CARE
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will appear as they reflect the joining of our commitment t o that of our colleagues in health care. Because its concerns are human, rather than national or ethnic, the journal is committed t o international readership and contribution.
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