制度学习与医疗社会工作的发展

Institutional Learning and the Development of Medical Social Work in China

文章从制度学习的视角出发,探讨了医疗社会工作在中国的成长和发展,认为中国的社会转型和变迁创造了医疗社会工作发展的制度空间,但同时需要注意到制度学习的内生和外生关系。最后提出,作为一项制度安排的医疗社会工作的发展,需要努力实现专业化和规范化。

From the angle of institutional learning, this article discusses the development of medical social work in China It holds that the social transition of China creats an institutional space for the development of medical social work. As a process of institutional learning, the development of medical social work needs considering some notable characters such as the relationship between internal growth and external adoption, distribution of attention, etc. Medical social work is actually a kind of institutional arrangement as well as a discipline which needs professionalization and normalization in the near future.