Institute of Health News

The International Federation of Social Workers issued this press statement in conjunction with the Social Work and Health Inequalities Network on April 7th 2009.

SOCIAL WORK AND GLOBAL HEALTH INEQUALITIES: PRACTICE AND POLICY DEVELOPMENTS (forthcoming 2009), P. Bywaters, E. McLeod and L. Napier (eds.), Bristol: Policy Press.

This new text written primarily by Social Work and Health Inequalities Network members will be a major new international text analysing the role that social work can contribute to understanding and tackling global health inequalities.  Flyer

Some members of the Social Work and Health Inequalities Network  have produced a brief Guide to Integrating health inequalities in social work learning and teaching. This has just been published in paper form and online by SWAP the Social Policy and Social Work Subject Centre in the UK. To access SWAP go to www.swap.ac.uk and see the guide featured on their home page or go directly to the guide on http://www.swap.ac.uk/docs/swapguide_6.pdf