this journal publishes authoritative articles in the following areas: Social work Social Welfare Social health Social Security Social Issues Norms
m j; mohammad sabzi khoshnami; Tahereh Azari Arghoun; Sara Noruzi; Farzaneh Yaghoob; Mahdokht Memarian
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One of the most important responsibilities of social workers is economic support of the needy patients based on professional evaluation and diagnosis. The present research is a qualitative contractual content analysis. Data was collected from 18 social workers of the headquarters, universities of medical ...
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One of the most important responsibilities of social workers is economic support of the needy patients based on professional evaluation and diagnosis. The present research is a qualitative contractual content analysis. Data was collected from 18 social workers of the headquarters, universities of medical sciences, and medical centers, following focused group discussion (FGD) method with multiple-question design. The findings obtained from analyzing the codes, subcategories, and themes/category were grouped as poor intra-organizational cooperation and collaboration and irresponsible inter-organizational challenges influential on the discount topic. The inter-organizational dimension involved topics such as the weakness of hospital HIS system, interference of others in recording the discounts, poor instructions, occupation of social work posts by graduates of other majors, poor documentation, lack of personnel and facilities, lack balance between the authorities and responsibilities, and the unfamiliarity of health workers with the nature of social work. The inter-organizational dimension included the poor performance of other supporting organizations, growing social paths and undocumented immigrants, insurance role, lack of attention to some of the vulnerable groups, imposed expenses, growing visits to public hospitals, and the culture of using public resources. According to the findings of the study, different factors influence the amount and type of the economic support that the social workers provide for the needy patients and this fact imposes a great expense into the healthcare system of the country. On the other hand, it has deprofessionalized the social work profession and created a negative and low level perception towards it in the society.
mohammad sabzi khoshnami; Elham mohammadi; Maliheh Arshi; Marzieh Takaffoli; Sara Noruzi
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The plan for organizing street children as a part of Welfare organization efforts has been in progress for more than a decade. Understanding the effects of this plan with a comprehensive look at its challenges is the goal of this study.This qualitative research was conducted in 2016. The study population ...
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The plan for organizing street children as a part of Welfare organization efforts has been in progress for more than a decade. Understanding the effects of this plan with a comprehensive look at its challenges is the goal of this study.This qualitative research was conducted in 2016. The study population was managers, experts, educators, children and caregivers in 4 provinces of Tehran, Semnan, Kurdistan and Sistan and Baluchestan. Through purposive sampling, a sample of 124 people was interviewed and data were analyzed by thematic analysis method. A total of 11 main themes, 28 sub themes and 79 concepts were extracted. Two main themes including deficiencies of the plan and complicated charactersitics of the street children problem exceeding the possibilities of the plan were the intrinsic challenges of the plan and main concepts of irresponsible organizational and infrastructural views, shortage of budget, techniques and skills, problems of workforce and synergy of problems and insufficient services were plan’s operational challenges. Under the effects of these challenges, the plan had different outcomes. The main themes about effects were continuity of working as a response to problems of family ,education and environment, better parents-child relations because of fear of center, difficulties of parenting and intertwinded feeling of imprisonment and happiness.overall the plan faced many intrinsic and operational challenges that lead to inadequate implementation of it. It has been successful in chaging the custody of some children, but it is not good enough at reducing working rate and increasing school attandence of street children.
