title: Social and public policy analysis: a niche for social work practice.
abstract: This article provides front line social work practitioners with a mechanism for becoming more meaningfully involved in social and public policy analysis. It suggests that a new entry point for shaping policy formulation should occur earlier on in the problem identification stage of the rational policymaking process. The article offers a series of process questions to guide this approach and contends that practitioners have the necessary knowledge and skills to effect the various role expectations required of them in this regard.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Holosko
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Au
mesh_terms: D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011050:Policy Making; D011057:Politics; D012940:Social Problems; D012945:Social Values; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States