Medical Social Work And The Knowledge In Epidimiology, Rehabilitation And Health Education

Abstract

People’s soundness and healthiness in mind, body and society is most desirable, Medical social work is one of the approaches to the people’s healthiness in every aspect. It aims at helping the people patient faced with mental and socioeconomic problems to be free from them. However, as regards a preventive measure of diseases disturbing public health, there are 3 approaches, namely; epidemiolo - gical approuach consisting of a study of disease distribution and analytical epidemiological; rehabilitation approach consisting of general concepts concerning social value and social movement as well as a learning pattern composed of knowledge and skill of professional courses moving towards needs of the hardicapped so as to habilitate them mentally and bodily; and social science approach consisting of knowledge in social system, subculture and therapeutic milieu etc with a particular emphasis on health educating which is concerned with causal factors in disease, possibilities for prevention, health behavior and health education and the role of the doctor and health workers in health education. Medical social work is closely related to epidemiology, rehabilitation and health education. The objective of the medical social work is to give people an understanding of themselves and a proper social functioning, In relation to epidemio-logy medical social work tries to impart to people a knowledge of agent, environment and host as related to the disease epidemic. Concerning rehabilitation. medical social work is a medium in linking together the patient and the doctors, and also tries to enhance a mutual understanding between them as well as motivating to doctors to give moral, mental and emotional support to the patint. As regards health education, the medical social worker can prove helpful in explaining to the patient the cause of their sickness and then asking them to co-operate in making their community and people rending them to