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'Brick' or 'bridge'? – the roles and functions of Chinese social workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Date Issued
2023
Journal
ISSN
0020-8728
1461-7234
Citation
International Social Work, 2023.
Type
Peer Reviewed Journal Article
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has been shaping Chinese social workers to contribute to public health. To study the details, this article aims to explore the roles of social workers during the pandemic in China’s mainland and how social workers fulfilled their roles. The study used a cross-sectional design with a convergent parallel-mixed methodology. Its findings provide another piece of evidence demonstrating the functions of social work practitioners during a health crisis worldwide. However, the ambiguities of the social work profession in addressing public health emergencies were also unveiled in the case of China.
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