Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation's Health was released in September 2019, before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in March 2020. Improving social conditions remains critical to improving health outcomes, and integrating social care into health care delivery is more relevant than ever in the context of the pandemic and increased strains placed on the U.S. health care system. The report and its related products ultimately aim to help improve health and health equity, during COVID-19 and beyond. The consistent and compelling evidence on how social determinants shape health has led to a growing recognition throughout the health care sector that improving health and health equity is likely to depend â€" at least in part â€" on mitigating adverse social determinants. This recognition has been bolstered by a shift in the health care sector towards value-based payment, which incentivizes improved health outcomes for persons and populations rather than service delivery alone. The combined result of these changes has been a growing emphasis on health care systems addressing patients' social risk factors and social needs with the aim of improving health outcomes. This may involve health care systems linking individual patients with government and community social services, but important questions need to be answered about when and how health care systems should integrate social care into their practices and what kinds of infrastructure are required to facilitate such activities. Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation's Health examines the potential for integrating services addressing social needs and the social determinants of health into the delivery of health care to achieve better health outcomes. This report assesses approaches to social care integration currently being taken by health care providers and systems, and new or emerging approaches and opportunities; current roles in such integration by different disciplines and organizations, and new or emerging roles and types of providers; and current and emerging efforts to design health care systems to improve the nation's health and reduce health inequities.

This work covers all four mandatory units and eleven of the optional units, so learners have enough for the ward, certificate, and diploma. Practice assignments and assessment guidance will also help learners to achieve their potential in internally assessed units.

Updated legislation and references to regulations where appropriate ensure that candidates and assessors have the most current information on frameworks related to the health and social care sector. Activities and case studies develop student understanding of care work in the real world.

PROMOTING PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTH This book forms part of a series entitled Promoting Partnership for Health publishedin association with the UK Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE). The series explores partnership for health from policy, practice and educational perspectives. Whilst strongly advocating the imperative driving collaboration in healthcare, it adopts a pragmatic approach. Far from accepting established ideas and approaches, the series alerts readers to the pitfalls and ways to avoid them. DESCRIPTION Interprofessional Teamwork for Health and Social Care is an invaluable guide for clinicians, academics, managers and policymakers who need to understand, implement and evaluate interprofessional teamwork. It will give them a fuller understanding of how teams function, of the issues relating to the evaluation of teamwork, and of approaches to creating and implementing interventions (e.g. team training, quality improvement initiatives) within health and social care settings. It will also raise awareness of the wide range of theories that can inform interprofessional teamwork. The book is divided into nine chapters. The first 'sets the scene' by outlining some common issues which underpin interprofessional teamwork, while the second discusses current teamwork developments around the globe. Chapter 3 explores a range of team concepts, and Chapter 4 offers a new framework for understanding interprofessional teamwork. The next three chapters discuss how a range of range of social science theories, interventions and evaluation approaches can be employed to advance this field. Chapter 8 presents a synthesis of research into teams the authors have undertaken in Canada, South Africa and the UK, while the final chapter draws together key threads and offers ideas for future of teamwork. The book also provides a range of resources for designing, implementing and evaluating interprofessional teamwork activities.

First Health and Social Care provides full coverage of Level 2 courses including all the mandatory and optional BTEC First units. It offers reasonably-priced and flexible materials that sit alongside existing resources for Level 2 Health and Social Care by providing: • Learning resources for a wide range of abilities – clear and comprehensive coverage of all Level 2 requirements providing up-to-date and relevant information. Students are encouraged to interact and actively engage with the content. A wide range of design features has been included to stimulate learning, both in the classroom and in independent study. • Practice and revision materials – questions, activities and worksheets that support practice, revision and review as well as advice on portfolio building, learning in the workplace and studying for assessment success. • Extension resources – for the more-able student and for those who want to explore topics in more depth there are extension activities and an extensive list of useful websites. Case studies provide the opportunity to make connections between the different topics and units in the textbook. Additional student support is included in the form of a study skills chapter, links to a wide range of useful websites, a glossary and cross-references. Activities are clearly linked to key skills and grading criteria. The resources are fully illustrated with clear diagrams and lively images to make the pages informative and interesting. This book has been written by very experienced educational authors at a level and in a style suitable for all Level 2 students. Pamela Minett is author of the hugely successful Child Care and Development textbook, now in its 5th edition. Dr David Wayne is the well-known author of medical textbooks and he is co-author, with Pamela Minett, of the Human Form & Function textbook.

Everything students need to make the grade in BTEC Level 2 First Health and Social Care. This lively and comprehensive textbook covers all the core and optional units, making it suitable whether you are studying for the Certificate, Extended Certificate or Diploma. Each chapter covers a unit packed with: - Activities to help with assignments - Advice on gathering evidence - Explanations of the BTEC pass, merit and distinction criteria - Further reading - Pointers to additional resources Written by authors with a wealth of experience in delivering, verifying and writing for BTECs, this textbook is packed with knowledge of the Health and Social Care sector and how to get the most of your course. This textbook is supported by a separately available Dynamic Learning package for tutors

Carefully researched and highly readable, this textbook looks at the experiences and health and social needs of key ‘vulnerable groups’. It presents an engaging social science perspective relevant to everyone exploring how we, and society, care for the vulnerable. Each chapter defines and explores a vulnerable social group, bringing together theoretical, policy, and practice perspectives. The lively and engaging style enables the reader to engage with the client group and to reflect upon their own learning and practice in a more meaningful way.