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- Title
Social Work in Public Health.
- Authors
Rice, Elizabeth P.
- Abstract
The article presents information about social work in public health. Social work in public health is a timely subject since social work has become a part of the community sent ices of prevention in public health and mental health. Various new processes and techniques have been developed and tested in the practice of public health and they seem now to have relevance to the field of social work practice wherever it exists. Some of the newer techniques and the reasons for their development will be discussed in the setting of public health. In the past, public health was primarily concerned with the control of transmissible diseases through the protection of milk and water supplies and the disposal of wastes. There was then less emphasis on the participation of the individual. The public health officer utilized his authority to control both community infections and individuals with communicable diseases. Although this authority still rests in the public health department, it is today utilized in a different way. Efforts are made to gain the participation of the individual through his understanding of his need for care in order that infections within the community may be controlled. Now a broader program of services exists, including some programs of medical care for families and community groups.
- Subjects
PUBLIC health; SOCIAL services; MEDICAL care; MENTAL health; PUBLIC health personnel; COMMUNITY organization; COMMUNICABLE diseases; WATER supply
- Publication
Social Work, 1959, Vol 4, Issue 1, p82
- ISSN
0037-8046
- Publication type
Article