Email this article 
Social work in healthcare: from theory to practice
- Authors: Vorobtsova E.S.1, Kiseleva E.E.2, Timoshevskii A.A.1
- Affiliations:
- State Budgetary Institution «Research Institute for Healthcare Organization and Medical management of Moscow Healthcare Department», Moscow, Russian Federation
- Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education «Russian State University for the Humanities», Moscow, Russian Federation
- Issue: No 2 (2025)
- Pages: 95-100
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://bulleten-nriph.ru/journal/article/view/2908
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.69541/NRIPH.2025.02.017
- Cite item
Abstract
Improving the quality of life of people with disabilities is directly related to the introduction of a multiprofessional approach, which determines the participation of specialists of various profiles, including specialists in social work, in health protection, including the provision of various types of medical and social assistance. The development of professional social work in Russia over the past thirty years has allowed them to expand the scope of their professional activities, one of which is the field of health protection. Professional social work in healthcare, in particular, in medical organizations, can be considered as a separate specific area of its activity — medical and social work. To date, theoretical, methodological, legal and organizational foundations of medical and social work have been developed, and personnel are being trained in the system of higher and secondary vocational education. At the same time, the country has only local experience of their participation in providing medical and social assistance to people with mental disorders, addicted to psychoactive substances, in need of palliative care, since issues remain unresolved related to both the «narrow» understanding of the essence of medical and social work by the medical community, awareness by doctors of the needs for such specialists, the introduction, for example, of a team method of work in medical organizations of specialists of various profiles, as well as issues of interdepartmental interaction between organizations and specialists of health and social protection systems, patients and recipients of social services in organizations that need an integrated approach to providing them with various types of medical, social and other assistance.
About the authors
Elena S. Vorobtsova
State Budgetary Institution «Research Institute for Healthcare Organization and Medical management of Moscow Healthcare Department», Moscow, Russian Federation
Email: docvorobtsova@gmail.com
Evgeniya E. Kiseleva
Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education «Russian State University for the Humanities», Moscow, Russian Federation
Email: ekiseleva86@mail.ru
Alexander A. Timoshevskii
State Budgetary Institution «Research Institute for Healthcare Organization and Medical management of Moscow Healthcare Department», Moscow, Russian Federation
Email: TimoshevskijAA@zdrav.mos.ru
References
- Воробцова Е. С. Командный метод работы в организациях паллиативной медицинской помощи. Паллиативная медицина и реабилитация. 2019;(3):16—20.
- Мохов А. А. Основы медицинского права Российской Федерации (Правовые основы медицинской и фармацевтической деятельности в Российской Федерации): учебное пособие для магистров. М.: Проспект; 2015.
- Белянинова Ю. В., Гусева Т. С., Захарова Н. А. и др. Комментарий к Федеральному закону от 21 ноября 2011 г. №323-ФЗ «Об основах охраны здоровья граждан в Российской Федерации». Саратов: Ай Пи Эр Медиа; 2018.
- Миллер Е. А. Технологии социальной работы как часть комплексного процесса паллиативной помощи инкурабельным больным. В кн.: Сборник научных статей по итогам Национальной научно-практической конференции «Парадигмальный характер фундаментальных и прикладных научных исследований, их генезис». Санкт-Петербург, 29—30 марта 2019 года. Санкт-Петербург: «КУЛЬТ-ИНФОРМ-ПРЕСС»; 2019.
- Воробцова Е. С., Мартыненко А. В., Овчинникова С. В. Социальная работа в системе паллиативной медицинской помощи. Паллиативная медицина и реабилитация. 2016;(2):14—20.
- Варуха А. П., Воробцова Е. С. Социальная работа в онкологии. Вопросы онкологии. 2022;68(5):650—657. doi: 10.37469/0507-3758-2022-68-5-650-657
- Lynn M. Raine, Phuong loan Vo, Stephen Wilson, Pamela L. Begay, James Drisko What is Clinical Social Work? Practitioners Views. Clinical Social Work Journal. 2023;51(4):367—378.
- Berzoff J., Drisko J. What Clinical Social Workers Need to Know: Biopsychosocial Knowledge and Skills. Twenty First Century. Clinical Social Work Journal. 2015;(43):263—273.
- Шимановская Я. В., Шимановская К. А., Сарычев А. С. Основы социальной медицины: учебник. М.: КноРус; 2020.
- Мартыненко А. В. и др. Теория и технологии медико-социальной работы: учебник и практикум для вузов. М.: Издательство Юрайт; 2024.
- Eda G. Goldstein Social Work Education and Clinical Learning: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Clinical Social Work Journal. 2007;35(1):15—23. doi: 10.1007/s10615-006-0067-z
- Новиков Г. А., Рудой С. В., Вайсман М. А., Подкопаев Д. В. Роль и место социальной и психологической поддержки при оказании паллиативной медицинской помощи пациентам: результаты эпидемиологического исследования. Паллиативная медицина и реабилитация. 2021;(1):5—9.
- Цейтлин Г. Я., Кокорева М. Е., Колтаков И. А., Володин Н. Н. Психолого-социальная служба — ключевая структура в системе реабилитационной помощи в детской онкологии. Онкопедиатрия. 2015;2(3):363—364.
- Van Diepen C, Lood Q, Gustavsson K, Axelsson M, Bertilsson M, Hensing G, Fors A. Person-centred care and the work-related health and job satisfaction of health and social care professionals: protocol for a prospective longitudinal cohort study combined with qualitative studies (the PCC@Work project). BMC Health Serv Res. 2024;24(1):683. doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-11148-z
- Gunter KE, Tanumihardjo JP, O'Neal Y, Peek ME, Chin MH. Integrated Interventions to Bridge Medical and Social Care for People Living with Diabetes. J Gen Intern Med. 2023;38(Suppl 1):4—10. doi: 10.1007/s11606-022-07926-2
- Pressley T., Shaw S., Brookins T. (2024). Medical Social Work and Case Management. In: Stapleton, D.H., Bossie, S. (eds). Home Care for Older Adults Using Interprofessional Teams. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 2023:51—71. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-40889-2_4
- Karls J., Wandrei K. E. The Person-In-Environment System for classifying client problems: A new tool for more effective case management. J Case Manag. 1992;1(3):90—5.
- Воробцова Е. С., Мартыненко А. В., Овчинникова С. В. Мнение врачей о деятельности профессиональных социальных работников в организациях, оказывающих паллиативную медицинскую помощь. Проблемы социальной гигиены, здравоохранения и истории медицины. 2020;(2):270—274.
