User:Tkmurata/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Social work

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Although my initial impression of social work before i entered into the MPH program comprised of “social workers just do psychological counseling and work in child protective services,” my impression of social work changed substantially once I had opportunities to interact with them either in graduate school or on the hospital floors. One of several reasons why I chose social work as one of the topics to evaluate on Wikipedia is because: one of my family members frequently interact with social workers in the healthcare setting an likewise; when I was on hospital IPPE rotation this past summer, I really got to understand how social works takes part as a healthcare team member. While I was completing my MPH degree program, I ran into classmates and colleagues who took part in dual degree MPH/MSW programs. The inter-mixed blend of both public health and social work really do matter because in a way, social and behavioral health is intrinsically connected with overall short-term and chronic public health outcomes. There’s one dimension of dealing with acute illness and injury with critical care medicine (reactive medicine), but a whole another story with long-term recovery involves dimensions of social, behavioral, and psychological support system that need to be integrated within the healthcare paradigm. In addition, social work professionals could provide major turning point junction for children and families; what i really mean is a child’s or family member’s life could be substantially affected with social workers’ intervention. Finally, social work would be at the very ground-level when it comes to understanding health disparities and inequity as well as the daily struggles many children and families continue to face in this generation.

Evaluate the article
Regarding lead section of Social work, this section allowed me to better understand what kind of work social work would entail at the global level, the involvement of multidisciplinary fields such as biology, psychology, behavioral science, political science, public health, economics, and law. The history of how social work as a profession was also described in-depth starting from the Industrial Revolution time-period.

This article’s content clearly covers the overall impression of what social work involves and which areas of emphasis are described, the definition and history of social work across United States, Canada, and India are discussed at depth.

With regards to tone and balance, seems very neutral, objective, and goes with the historical facts as much as possible. I do feel like this article is like a historian talking at the museum dedicated to the history and highlights of the social work profession.

The Social work article has 85 very solid and reputable references that include professional peer-reviewed journal articles and other sources/references that help shape and contribute to the solid foundation of this article’s content matter regarding social work within the United States and other nations across the world.

I do like how this social work article is organized and has high-level of writing quality; enough that individuals with any education level attainment with foundational reading, writing, and speaking knowledge of the English language can comprehend this article.