Joining the Global Conversation: Social Workers Define Health Using a Participatory Action Research Approach

Abstract

Abstract The social work profession is immersed in health-relevant considerations across its numerous fields of practice. The way in which health is defined becomes an essential guide to the way in which social work and other health-related practice occurs. Furthermore, the definition and conceptualisation of health guides research and theory development. This article aims to demonstrate the im portance of social work’s contributions to the global conversation on the definition of health. Results from a participatory action research (PAR) study aimed at exploring how social work educators, practitioners and students conceptualise health help to demonstrate the need for social work to continue engaging in this foundational conversation.

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