Learning Objectives

  1. Describe health challenges and the American health care system.
  2. Evaluate the current state of health care policy in the United States.
  3. Articulate current trends in health care.
  4. Identify health care settings that employ social workers and their roles in those settings.
  5. Describe how specific demographic groups are advantaged or disadvantaged in the health care system.
  6. Apply the dynamic advocacy model to working with people experiencing health care challenges.