Department of Health Social Work, Dell Medical School, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Soc Work Health Care. 2021;60(1):49-61. doi: 10.1080/00981389.2021.1885567. Epub 2021 Feb 9.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the systemic inequities in our health care system and society has called for actions to meet the clinical, psychosocial and educational needs in health care settings and communities. In this paper we describe how an organized Department of Health Social Work in a medical school played a unique role in responding to the challenges of a pandemic with community, clinical, and educational initiatives that were integral to our community's health.
COVID-19 大流行暴露了我们医疗体系中的系统性不平等,社会呼吁采取行动,满足医疗环境和社区中的临床、心理社会和教育需求。在本文中,我们描述了医学院中一个有组织的卫生社会工作系如何通过社区、临床和教育举措,发挥独特作用应对大流行挑战,这些举措是我们社区健康的重要组成部分。