Welfare Reform on the Web (March 2012): Social care - overseas

Social work in health care: its past and future. 2nd ed

S. Dhooper

London: Sage, 2012

This book is a comprehensive look at the US healthcare industry from its historical development to its current status. It pays particular attention to four domains of health care: acute care, ambulatory care, illness prevention and health promotion and long-term care and the role that social workers play in these areas in the present day and in the future.