Structural social work (SSW) is a critical theory that frames poverty, violence, and disease as the product of oppressive social structures. SSW concepts were applied to a rural dentistry project in Nepal. Delivery of oral health care in Nepal is influenced by capitalist, colonialist, and scientific-modernist ideologies that disadvantage the rural poor. Jevaia Oral Health Care operationalizes SSW principles of tension relief, consciousness-raising, collectivization, and power-brokering, but is limited in tackling structural problems around etiological aspects of oral disease. SSW offers useful and important practice strategies for improving oral health care in Nepal.

结构性社会工作（SSW）是一个批判性理论，将贫困，暴力和疾病归结为压迫性社会结构的产物。SSW概念已应用于尼泊尔的农村牙科项目。尼泊尔的口腔保健服务受到资本主义，殖民主义和科学现代主义意识形态的影响，这些意识形态使农村贫困人口处于不利地位。Jevaia口腔保健服务部实施SSW缓解紧张，提高意识，集体化和权力经纪的原则，但在解决口腔疾病的病因方面的结构性问题方面受到限制。SSW为改善尼泊尔的口腔保健提供了有用且重要的实践策略。