title: Health policy and social workers in health: past, present, and future.
abstract: From its beginnings, social work has concerned itself with the broad social problems and issues affecting all society's citizens, and health care in this country has been one arena for this concern. Practice in health settings has both shaped and been shaped by health policy. What will its direction be in the years to come?
mesh_terms: D005544:Forecasting; D006291:Health Policy / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000639:trends; D012947:Social Work / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States