SOCWK120R Chapter 9: Social Work and the Health of Canadians (Chapter 9)

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Social Work (Social Development Studies)
• Course: SOCWK120R
• Professor: Santiago Grande

Document Summary

Social workers play a key role in the provision of health services. Health and inequality terms of health and well being. Health gap: the growing difference between the rich and the poor in. The rich are healthier than the poor. The well educated are healthier than the less educated. The employed are healthier than the unemployed. Gap between rich and poor in terms of health spending. Problem with health care, items are not covered by public health. New immigrants and visible minorities are at a disadvantage when it. Aboriginal peoples have the poorest levels of overall health insurance comes to health care. Universals public health care: publicly funded quality health care. Doctors and barber surgeons served the military, while women. Within first nations communities, healers and shamans undertook the. 1700s, increasing immigrants and growing towns meant that doctors. First canadian medical school was founded in 1824.