Health Care Social Work A Global Perspective

Health Care Social Work aims to directly empower health care social workers around the world by providing valuable new information about the breadth and depth of the profession's health care contributions, legislative and policy influences upon practice, and implications for future practice and growth in different nations. Written by scholars and practitioners of health care social work from around the world, chapters encourage comparative analysis of distant health care social work practice as a means of supporting meaningful change on a local level and contributing to public health in a way that transcends boundaries and makes a difference globally. Readers will gain an opportunity to examine their assumptions about health care social work practice and reflect meaningfully upon less familiar techniques and approaches as a way of prompting problem-solving with an expanded frame of reference.

Ren Winnett, MSW, LICSW, is a licensed clinical social worker at Multicare Health System in Washington and a lecturer at the University of Washington Tacoma.

Rich Furman, PhD, MSW, is Professor of Social Work at the University of Washington Tacoma. He is author or editor of 17 books, including Transnational Social Work Practice (Columbia University Press, 2010) and Social Work Practice with Latinos: Key Issues and Emerging Themes (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Douglas Epps, MSW, is a doctoral student in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. He is coeditor of The Immigrant Other: Lived Experiences in a Transnational World (Columbia University Press, 2016) and Detaining the Immigrant Other: Global and Transnational Issues (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Greg Lamphear is co-editor of The Immigrant Other: Lived Experiences in a Transnational World (Columbia University Press, 2016) and Detaining the Immigrant Other: Global and Transnational Issues (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Chapter 1. Introduction
Ren Winnett, Sandy S. Kim, Rich Furman, Douglas Epps, and Greg Lamphear

Section 1. Foundation Chapters
Chapter 2. Health Care in a Global World
Govind Hariharan

Chapter 3. Transnational Health Care
Tomas Mainil and Sabina Stan

Chapter 4. Health Care Social Work in the United States
Ren Winnett

Section 2. Global Case Studies
Chapter 5. The Role of Social Work in Australian Health Care Settings
Helen M. Cleak

Chapter 6. Health Care Social Work in China
Peter P. Szto

Chapter 7. The Role of the Social Worker in Health Care in Cuba
Dolly R. Sacristan

Chapter 8. Health Care Social Work in England
Malcome Payne

Chapter 9. Health Care Social Work in India
Nemthianngai Guite

Chapter 10. Health Care Social Work in Nigeria
Uzoma Odera Okoye

Chapter 11. Health Care Social Work in Saudi Arabia
Abdulaziz Albrithen

Chapter 12. Social Work in Health Care in South Africa
Charlene Laurence Carbonatto

Chapter 13. Health Care Social Work in Sweden
Manuela Sjöström

Chapter 14. Health Care Social Work in Turkey: An Evolving Field of Practice
Tarik Tuncay

Chapter 15. Health Care Social Work in Ukraine
Tetyana Semigina