Community social intervention in the hospital setting: opinions of healthcare social workers and analysis of experiences

Abstract

The objective of this work has been to know how the community participation activities carried out in the hospitals are framed, through the opinions of professionals of the Social Health Work about their professional performance in the community intervention and from the community social work, as well as through the analysis of the experiences that the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) has defined as good practices of participation in hospitals in 2015.

To this end, the social health workers (TSS) have been asked about the community interventions that they carry out from the hospital and about the participation activities that take place in the same according to the participation plan that is established in the contract program with the SAS. In addition, through the analysis of the experiences of good participation practices in 2015, it has also been possible to know the framework within the community intervention, of the participation that SAS promotes in hospitals.