Health care and social work services: present concerns and future directions.
This article reviews eight major social-health care issues of the eighties: controlling costs; access to care; changing organizational patterns; solo versus interprofessional care; regulations and accountability; social reform/special interest movements; ethics and values; and changing urban populations. The author formulates how changes in our medical care systems will affect the practice of social work in health care settings.
D003363:Cost Control; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012947:Social Work / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population