SOWK 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Commonwealth Fund, Publicly Funded Health Care, Health Policy
23 Oct 2016
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Health defined health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Social workers talk about health beyond the medical model. Health as the absence of disease is the biomedical definition. To promote the health of its people, society must do more than treat known diseases. Inequity in conditions of daily living is shaped by social structures and processes. Inequity is produced by social norms, policies and practices that tolerate or promote unfair distribution of and access to power, wealth ad other social resources. Government and the economy have the potential to affect health and health equity. Few governments have policies to address the social determinants of health. Context healthcare is the largest field of practice for social workers; healthcare is one of the largest industries in canada; health is one of the most important concerns for.
