Health Care Social Work aims to directly empower health care social workers around the world by providing valuable new information about the breadth and depth of the profession's health care contributions, legislative and policy influences upon practice, and implications for future practice and growth in different nations. Written by scholars and practitioners of health care social work from around the world, chapters encourage comparative analysis of distant health care social work practice as a means of supporting meaningful change on a local level and contributing to public health in a way that transcends boundaries and makes a difference globally. Readers will gain an opportunity to examine their assumptions about health care social work practice and reflect meaningfully upon less familiar techniques and approaches as a way of prompting problem-solving with an expanded frame of reference.

Chapter 1. IntroductionRen Winnett, Sandy S. Kim, Rich Furman, Douglas Epps, and Greg LamphearSection 1. Foundation ChaptersChapter 2. Health Care in a Global WorldGovind HariharanChapter 3. Transnational Health CareTomas Mainil and Sabina StanChapter 4. Health Care Social Work in the United StatesRen WinnettSection 2. Global Case StudiesChapter 5. The Role of Social Work in Australian Health Care SettingsHelen M. CleakChapter 6. Health Care Social Work in ChinaPeter P. SztoChapter 7. The Role of the Social Worker in Health Care in CubaDolly R. SacristanChapter 8. Health Care Social Work in EnglandMalcome PayneChapter 9. Health Care Social Work in IndiaNemthianngai GuiteChapter 10. Health Care Social Work in NigeriaUzoma Odera OkoyeChapter 11. Health Care Social Work in Saudi ArabiaAbdulaziz AlbrithenChapter 12. Social Work in Health Care in South AfricaCharlene Laurence CarbonattoChapter 13. Health Care Social Work in SwedenManuela SjöströmChapter 14. Health Care Social Work in Turkey: An Evolving Field of PracticeTarik TuncayChapter 15. Health Care Social Work in UkraineTetyana Semigina