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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
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
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
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
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?
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 WorkStandards and Competencies
May 2005
Epidemiology and Public Health Social Workers
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.
Social Determinants of Health
– Social Gradient– Stress– Early Life– Social Exclusion– Work– Unemployment– Social Support– Addiction– Food– Transport
Social Workers in Public Health Action
PPOR is about ACTION(each period of risk is associated with a set of possible areas for action)
Maternal Health/
Prematurity
Maternal Care
Newborn Care
Infant Health
Preconception Health Health Behaviors Perinatal Care
Prenatal Care High Risk Referral Obstetric Care
Perinatal Management Neonatal Care Pediatric Surgery
Sleep Position Breast Feeding Injury Prevention
DIME
Family Planning
Back to SleepBreastfeeding
Clinical
PHRM
Car seats
Show video if time permits
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Video: “This is Public Health” (U-tube –by: dbremmer)2minutes 56 seconds
Show video if time permits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS3-MZZyVNI
Video: “Health Inequality – social determinants of health film (glasgow)” (U-tube
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 Boardwww.phaboard.org
The EndFor Further information we may be reached at:
Danielle Seale, MSW, LCSW
President of Association of State and Territorial
Public Health Social Workers
Email: [email protected]