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Social Health ServicesSocial Health Services courses are geared toward people who are concerned about health in the community and for those who have an interest in health and human services. Your studies will involve researching health issues. For example, looking how social inequalities are produced, nationally and internationally, and their negative effects community health. Your studies may also cover issues around need and policy – does social policy in New Zealand help those in need and how can policy be bettered? Your courses may also draw on other disciplines that compliment the Social Science basis in a Social Science for Public Health major. These may include looking at: Geography, Anthropology, History, Politics and Sociology. Health Social Work PracticeAlternatively, you may undertake a degree more closely related to Social Work. Social workers undertake a number of different duties including helping people overcome problems, helping to find resources for people, setting up programmes to offer people assistance, helping to make plans for the future and develop proposals for social policy. A Health Social Work Practice major will prepare you to become a social work practitioner and help people overcome social challenges found in modern society. Topics you may cover
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