Sorry if this seems like a dumb or strange question but for the life of me I can't understand why Social Work which looks at servicing potentially disenfranchised populations, is not considered underneath the umbrella of Public Health/Preventive Medicine?
Is a social worker making sure a patient with dementia takes her pills not apart of preventing a potentially catastrophic situation that could adversely affect the health of the public? And are public health providers who study how to control or slow down the epidemics of community-afflicted diseases such as ebola not doing work that has effect in the social world?
The separating of social workers, from public health is a really strange dichotomy that I really don't understand.
Is a social worker making sure a patient with dementia takes her pills not apart of preventing a potentially catastrophic situation that could adversely affect the health of the public? And are public health providers who study how to control or slow down the epidemics of community-afflicted diseases such as ebola not doing work that has effect in the social world?
The separating of social workers, from public health is a really strange dichotomy that I really don't understand.