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Social Work Grand Challenges and the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals: Linking Social Work and Women¡¯s Health

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  • Annalise John
  • Elizabeth Gamarra
  • Melissa Bird
  • Rachel L. Wright
  • Caren J. Frost

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The health of women is a crucial component to family and community wellbeing. However, social work scholars have not been very engaged in research pertaining to the health needs of women. With the Grand Challenges of Social Work becoming a major element for national discussion and with the revision of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SGD) in 2015, we wondered how connected the 12 Grand Challenges and the 17 SDGs were. We searched the social work literature from 2005 to present to identify what salient publications were available about women¡¯s health and then connected them to the current themes of the Grand Challenges and SDGs. There are no more articles to review in the social work literature. Using a feminist social work framework, we summarize the topics covered in these articles and define a call to action for more scholarly work on women¡¯s health in the context of current national and global conversations about this social justice issue.

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  • Annalise John & Elizabeth Gamarra & Melissa Bird & Rachel L. Wright & Caren J. Frost, 2016. "Social Work Grand Challenges and the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals: Linking Social Work and Women¡¯s Health," International Journal of Social Work, Macrothink Institute, vol. 3(2), pages 71-85, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:mth:ijsw88:v:3:y:2016:i:2:p:71-85
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