 The health of clients referred to social workers in an intake teamRoslyn H. Corney Social Science & Medicine, 1985, vol. 21, issue 8, 873-878 Abstract: Though numerous reports have strongly argued that there is a need for a closer collaboration between the health and social services, studies investigating the health of clients in contact with the personal social services have been few and limited. This study collected information regarding the physical and mental health of clients referred to social workers in the local authority intake team by means of questionnaires completed by the clients, and a selected sub-sample was also given an interview. Details were also taken regarding the social worker's assessment of health, reasons for referral and their intervention. The results indicated that the proportion of patients with physical or mental illness, or both, were very high and that social workers tended to under-report or under-estimate these illnesses. While there is some suggestion that the social workers were more likely to carry out more interviews with those clients who were ill, either physically or mentally, the contacts between social workers and medical personnel were very limited indeed. Date: 1985 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:21:y:1985:i:8:p:873-878 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier |
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