Social Work Perspectives on Poverty and Health Inequality as a Multidimensional Phenomenon
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 2776
Special Issue Editors
Interests: poverty as a lived experience; social work for social justice; othering; qualitative methodologies
Interests: poverty; employment (unemployment) and earnings; social assistance recipients; health and health inequality; subjective wellbeing; longitudinal data
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, there has been renewed interest among social work scholars toward poverty and socioeconomic inequality. The old view of treating poverty and relative deprivation as mere background variables has been transformed into seeing poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon and a central axis for analysis of social problems and traumas. This change is connected with emphasizing the commitment of the social work profession to social justice and equality, and ties in with critical schools of social work, including radical, feminist, structural, anti-oppressive, post-colonial and poverty-aware social work. The common principles of those various schools are a structural analysis of social problems and a recognition of the knowledge of service users. They also share a need to use critical reflection in order to analyze power relations that exist between social workers and service users and to undermine the profession’s role in supporting socioeconomic disparities. Moreover, current poverty knowledge perceives poverty to be a multidimensional phenomenon that is inextricably woven into various realms of life, especially health (including mental health), education, employment, and wellbeing. The COVID-19 pandemic has provided empirical evidence for the connection between poverty and health, education, employment, and wellbeing, yet the pathways that make these connections significant determinants of people’s lives are still to be explored. This Special Issue seeks to attract articles that use a social justice lens to study poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon.
Prof. Dr. Michal Krumer-Nevo
Dr. Netta Achdut
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- poverty-aware
- wellbeing
- social justice
- health
- disadvantage
- inequality
