Abstract
W ORKING WITH INDIVIDUALS and families in need of help is a function of both public health nurses and social workers. Questions frequently arise when members of both disciplines are working with the same families. Are they working on the same problems? Are they doing the same thing? In establishing closer relationships between social workers and public health nurses, it has become evident that many of our professional goals are similar. We are both concerned with meeting basic human needs and in helping families solve their health and social problems. What then is different? What approaches are used? Social work and public health nursing, like other public services, both grew out of needs and concerns of society for the plight of individuals. Roots of social work extend back to early Hebrew and Christian concern for people who had unusual difficulties in maintain-
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