All this testifies to the increasing role of the health system of a new type of professional activity - medical social work. The
formation of this type of activity is due to the deteriorating health
of the population that required addressing health and social issues to a
new level - at the level of socio-medical work.
Medical
studies mainly anatomical and physiological condition of the human body
as a whole and its separate systems, identifying deviations from the
physiological norm, diagnose pathological changes in the body, determine
cause and effect relationships underlying the mechanisms of disease.
It uses different methods for a full recovery of the body, normalizing its physiological processes. The
tasks of social work include the identification of major factors that
have the most significant impact on human health, his social adaptation
and family tree, possibly affecting the health of children.
However,
the prevention activities carried out by medical personnel are often
not effective because it does not affect the whole complex of social
problems and solves them in part.
At
the same time not studied the effect of individual social factors and
their combinations on human health, almost no studies of society and the
economic condition of families, in particular provision of the
necessities for human life: housing, employment, transportation, food,
no studies are demographic indicators: incidence, fertility,
mortality, reproduction, population, etc.; not take into account local
economic conditions of residence and its effect on human health.
