This is the first comprehensive book that provides accessible, international knowledge for practitioners, students and academics about social work in health eme

In the new health care environment, social workers are being called upon to act as case managers, coordinators, evaluators, therapists, and researchers. Interna

The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United Sta

Social Workers Affecting Social Policy is the first book to undertake a cross-national study of social worker engagement in social-policy formulation processes.

Social work has always embraced the service of helping people. But since its beginnings around the mid-1870's, two fronts within social work have been divided i