This Workshop Presentation will engage participants to actively familiarise themselves with health and social care practice and policy and identify relevant issues from a comparative skills set. Health and social care are vital in provision of transparency and equitability across societies and a major part of welfare provision, policy, and practice. The book, ‘Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Care Policy and Practice: A Comparative Introduction’, concludes that ageing populations, inequalities, and globalization impact upon policies and that countries display dual trends towards increased expenditure on health and social care and further marketization and diversity within service delivery. The workshop will build upon this and be of interest to social policy practitioners, researchers, and social care professionals, to gauge interest, and facilitate active knowledge exchange.

The workshop’s learning objectives are a) to delineate what impacts upon health and social care across participants’ countries; b) to identify policy and research responses needed with a view to identifying common and global challenges; and c) to help support preliminary development of a global and comparative skills-set in the process. The workshop will be organized around small group interactive engagement to share views upon differences and similarities in policies and practice. It will also engage participants in thinking about further knowledge exchange and international engagement and the location of health and social care in the social sciences.

Authors:
Vincent La Placa, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom

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Posted by James Alexander Gordon

Last updated: 2023-02-23 23:45:00

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