SWRK 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Palliative Care, Triage
10 Jan 2016
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November 20th - chapter 6 social work and health. Indigenous peoples different kinds of barbers for every culture ex: circumcision traditional healers for treatment as well as plants, leaves or flowers will help for diseases. immune system is different. 19th century individual and families were responsibility for health universal coverage. Hall report, then the royal commission on health services universal health coverage achieved. 1970 s and early 1980s extra billing - billed services doctors charging and creating user fees first province that had health coverage - saskatchewan. 1972 rewarding and limiting psychosocial assessments the multiple and many questions patients have, it is the social workers" job to help refer to all dif kinds of organizations triage mentality. Palliative care o no one really knows exactly when they will die. doctors say one month to live and they live 1 yr o essential in palliative care - helps to cope with end- of-life.
