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The evolution of clinical information systems has enabled the integration of processes at workstations, providing significant benefits for patient care. At the same time, the development of a social health work process (SHWP) has become a priority for our field. For this reason, the Social Work Coordination Unit at the Catalan Health Institute (ICS) set a goal of establishing an SHWP in ICS hospitals and integrating this process into electronic medical records.

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on Generation Z, which made it necessary to design health promotion projects aimed at mitigating its effects. For this reason, a quantitative-descriptive research was undertaken orientated towards understanding their lifestyle habits with the purpose of incorporating their own vision. 588 high school students from an urban environment, aged between 11 and 17, of both sexes and non-binary participated.

Social work operates within the field of health and, in said sphere, in providing support to families in times of grief in particular. However, when it comes to perinatal loss, social work has seen limited development. This type of grief has unique characteristics that set it apart, yet it remains largely invisible within society. Consequently, this article aims to reflect on the importance of social work intervention when it comes to supporting families and, in particular, women who have experienced perinatal loss.

Continued social changes and contextual diversity are giving rise to new health needs. Key social components are becoming increasingly significant, adding to the psychosocial complexity that goes hand in hand with medical complexity. Paediatric palliative care is not immune to modern-day realities and it is influenced by social and political factors. Accordingly, it has become important to highlight the existence of social complexity factors when it comes to the assessment, social intervention and support of patients and families.

A recently established field in Catalonia, palliative care offers a substantial professional domain for social work. The care model required for its development, based on a comprehensive approach to all the issues arising from the situation of terminal illness and the need to care for the patient and their family as a unit, makes the work of the social worker paramount. This has been true since the earliest experiences in English hospices, and indeed it also applies here in Catalonia.

Within child protection work involving families with children at risk, the safety of said children has been traditionally prioritised over the stability of family ties, often leading to coercive and adversarial situations involving families which frequently lead to the child being taken away. The unsuccessful outcomes of these typical practices have given rise to a call for cooperation between professionals and families which must unfold in the form of specific interventions in order to go beyond simple rhetoric.

The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has highlighted the importance of social determinants in disease processes. Health services have created mechanisms aimed at protecting the most socially vulnerable citizens.

Formed by a Technical Board and led by social and healthcare workers from various health providers in the city of Barcelona, the Social Emergency Committee (attached to the Health Association of Barcelona) addressed needs relating to difficulties encountered with availability of safe accommodation where certain groups of citizens could spend their isolation suitably.

This paper strives to place in context the circumstances of the elderly and elderly people with Alzheimer's, while also setting out the general characteristics they bear and detailing various research projects that seek to improve the wellbeing of these elderly persons. A review is conducted which reveals how technology can favour mood in old age, introducing different lines of research and innovative social projects, emphasising social intervention through artificial intelligence.

Although pondering on death among children and young people is a disagreeable responsibility, the goal of paediatric palliative care is to strive to provide end-of-life support for children. Paediatric palliative care is established as the specialist field that deals with illnesses for which no cure is available. From a multidisciplinary position, the comprehensive paediatric palliative care network of Catalonia (XAPPI) is being implemented to provide a biopsychosocial and spiritual response for patients and families facing illnesses for which no possible treatment is available.

This paper seeks to analyse and describe the formative research process carried out on the context of the academic subject “Ethnographic Design”. It involved important challenges and opportunities since it was unfeasible to conduct face-to-face fieldwork on account of the COVID-19 pandemic; therefore, the work was performed online.