Addressing Heart Failure Challenges through Illness-Informed Social Work

Health and Social Work

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 201-208

  Hopp, Faith Pratt ^a   Camp, Jessica K ^b   Perry, Tam E ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FLINT   (United States)

Author keywords

access to care; biomedical conditions; chronic conditions; chronic illness; end of life care

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL WORK; TERMINAL CARE;

CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; SOCIAL WORK; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84939788198     PISSN: 03607283     EISSN: 15456854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/hlv036     Document Type: Article

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