It is a fact that our society hates to pay more attention to illness or death. Instead, everyone is interested in imagining that he or she will live forever, keep young, without any pain.

Medical and public health social workers are among these rare beings who want to look illness and death in the face. They can help people cope with cancer, AIDs and some other serious illnesses. The mission of health social workers is to provide individuals or families with the psychosocial support that is needed to cope with acute, chronic or terminal illnesses and more.

Usually, the services of public health social work will include referring patient, client, or family to community resources to assist in recovery from mental or physical illness and to provide access to services such as education, financial assistance, housing, job placement, legal aid and so on. Besides, according to measurable goals described in treatment and care plan, they also need to monitor, evaluate, and record client progress.

In a word, those public health social workers do all they can to help people get well, but when illness is terminal, they turn their attention to helping their clients die peacefully indeed.

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