Interuniversity Master's Degree in Social Work in Health Care - 1st edition

Today's society needs professionals specialized in health and social work to provide social diagnoses and opinions that identify strengths and social risk factors and thus promote health, disease prevention and social intervention in individuals and the community in manner that makes them active subjects in their treatment, recovery and rehabilitation.

Aspects such as longer life expectancy, the chronic nature of some diseases, the increase in obesity and diabetes due to sedentary lifestyles, and socially motivated health inequalities have a direct impact on people's health and dependency needs, and it is the figure of the social worker who promotes the inclusion of the social perspective in health care settings and health centres.

The Interuniversity Master's Degree in Health Social Work is an official master's degree that offers specialized and advanced training for holders of degrees and other qualifications in social work that promotes access to health in vulnerable groups and social and health interventions in public health, sexual and reproductive health, and mental health, among others.

Seven Mediterranean universities participate in this master's degree under the coordination of the University of Valencia and with the support of the Spanish University Association of Social Work.