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Preparing Public Health Social Workers to Lead in Changing Times

Preparing Public Health Social Workers to Lead in Changing Times. Danielle C. Seale, MSW, LCSW President of Association of State and Territorial Public Health Social Workers. What is Public Health Social Work.

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Preparing Public Health Social Workers to Lead in Changing Times

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  1. Preparing Public Health Social Workers to Lead in Changing Times Danielle C. Seale, MSW, LCSW President of Association of State and Territorial Public Health Social Workers

  2. What is Public Health Social Work Public health social work addresses health from a broad perspective that includes physical, social, emotional, and spiritual well-being throughout the continuum of the life cycle. Public Health Social Work Standards and Competencies May 2005

  3. History of Public Health Social Work • Overview • Social Security Act of 1935 • Edith M. Baker • Martha Eliot • Social Work Services in Maternal and Child Health • The “visitor” concept

  4. What do Public Health Social Workers Do Today? Public Health Social Workers address health issues by identifying and implementing strategies/interventions through pivotal times of transition from one phase of individual development to another. Public Health Social Work Standards and Competencies May 2005

  5. Why Do YOU Need To Know What PHSWs Do? • WE SEE THE SAME PEOPLE: Because PHSWs work with such diverse populations they are often seeing people who are also followed by social workers in other setting. Illness exacerbates any of the other problems a person may have and it may limit the possibilities open to the client. • THE WAY PHSWs APPROACH PROBLEMS HAS IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE WHERE YOU WORK: What is it that the client should do for himself? What do I as the social worker need to do for him/her? What are the systemic forces at work? How do I bring about change at an organizational, community or societal level?

  6. Public Health Social Work Standards • Public Health Social Work uses social planning, community organizational development, and social marketing principles • Public Health Social Work provides leadership and advocacy • Public Health Social Work assures the competency of its practice to address the issues of public health effectively through a core body of social work knowledge, philosophy, code of ethics, and standards. • Public Health Social Work supports and conducts data collection, research, and evaluation. • Public Health Social Work uses social epidemiology principles Public Health Social Work Standards and Competencies May 2005

  7. Epidemiology and Public Health Social Workers

  8. Social Determinants of Health • The economic and social conditions under which people live which determine their health. They are “societal risk conditions”, rather than individual risk factors that either increase or decrease the risk for a disease.

  9. Social Determinants of Health • Social Gradient • Stress • Early Life • Social Exclusion • Work • Unemployment • Social Support • Addiction • Food • Transport

  10. Social Workers in Public Health Action

  11. Show video if time permits <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Bpu42LmLo4U" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Video: “This is Public Health” (U-tube –by: dbremmer)2minutes 56 seconds

  12. Show video if time permits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS3-MZZyVNI Video: “Health Inequality – social determinants of health film (glasgow)” (U-tube

  13. Further information/resources about Public Health Social Work Association of State and Territorial Public Health Social Workers www.astphsw Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care www.sswlhc.org American Public Health Association www.apha.org Public Health Accreditation Board www.phaboard.org

  14. The End For Further information we may be reached at: Danielle Seale, MSW, LCSW President of Association of State and Territorial Public Health Social Workers Email: Danielle.Seale@msdh.state.ms.us

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