1. In celebration of World Social Work Day Promoting the Dignity and Worth of Peoples
Social work’s role in tackling health inequalities
Monday 14 March 2016
Julie Fish

2. Millennium Development Goals
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3. Social Determinants of Health
Marmot (2008) Closing the Gap. WHO: Geneva

4. Two babies born one mile apart
In two neighbourhoods in Glasgow, the baby born in poor are of Drumchapel will most likely be:
born underweight
live ten years less
twice as likely to die before its first birthday
three times more likely to die of heart disease or bronchitis
three times more likely to die of breast cancer
twice as likely to die of lung cancer
four times more likely to suffer from a psychiatric disorder
2.5 times more likely to die before 65.
Drumchapel
Kelvinside
What are health inequalities: infant mortality

5. Increasing integration of
1.Social care related quality of life;
2.Ensuring that people have a positive experience of care & support;
3.Delaying and reducing the need for care;
4.Safeguarding.
Increasing integration of
health and social care
1. Preventing people from dying prematurely;
2.Enhancing quality of life for people with long-term conditions;
3. Helping people to recover from episodes of ill health;
4. Ensuring that people have a positive experience of care;
5. Treating and caring for people in safely and protecting them from harm.
Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework
Public Health Outcomes Framework
NHS Outcomes Framework
We know the government policy seeks to mitigating psychological distress in objectives of Avoiding loneliness
Adult social care outcomes
People
1. Improving the wider determinants of health;
4. Preventing premature mortality

6. Legislation Health and social care act 2012
13G Duty as to reducing inequalities
(a) reduce inequalities between patients with respect to their ability to access health services,
(b) reduce inequalities between patients with respect to the outcomes achieved for them by the provision of health services.
13N Duty as to promoting integration
(1) The Board must exercise its functions with a view to securing that
health services are provided in an integrated way where it considers
that this would—
(a) improve the quality of those services (including the outcomes
that are achieved from their provision),
(b) reduce inequalities between persons with respect to their ability
to access those services, or
(c) reduce inequalities between persons with respect to the
outcomes achieved for them by the provision of those services.
(2) The Board must exercise its functions with a view to securing that the
provision of health services is integrated with the provision of healthrelated
services or social care services where it considers that this
would—
(a) improve the quality of the health services (including the
outcomes that are achieved from the provision of those
services),

7. Marmot’s Conceptual Framework

8. How can social work promote health?
Gary Bailey , the former President of International Federation of Social Workers talks about the significance of World Social Work day
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10. Group exercise: poster design
Take the theme of WSWD 2016
Promoting the Dignity and Worth of Peoples
Design a poster for either service users, students or professionals to communicate key messages about social work’s role in tackling health inequalities

11. Students designing posters for #WSWD16

12. Do food banks promote the dignity and worth of peoples?

14. Ilan H. Meyer, UCLA School of Law
“An important and innovative addition to the growing research on LGBT health disparities. The book provides both a social work and an international perspective to a field typically dominated by US based public health research.”
Ilan H. Meyer, UCLA School of Law
 “Committed to health equity and human rights, this valuable book offers important theoretical and practical insights to improve LGBT wellbeing across the lifecourse, from early childhood to end-of-life care, and does so cognizant of commingled inequitable power relations involving sexuality, class, race/ethnicity, and gender, within and between nations.”
Nancy Krieger, Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard  
31 contributors – 8 countries worldwide
Topics including mental health older people, young people in the care system, sexual health, end of life care “

15. Looked after children
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16. Reading
Fish, J. and Karban, K. (2013) Health inequalities at the heart of the social work curriculum. Social Work Education 01/2013; online. DOI:10.180/
Bywaters, P. Mcleod, E.  and Napier, L. (2010) (eds) 'Social work and global health inequalities.' Bristol: The Policy Press.
Curriculum guide for The College of Social Work on Physical health, Dementia and End of Life Care. edia_centre/CG_Health.pdf
Julie Fish in conversation with Patricia Fronek health-inequalities/

17. Resources
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