medical social worker

Japanese: medical social worker（英語表記）medicalsocialworker

...The former refers to social welfare, social security, and public health measures implemented in the form of medical insurance, public assistance, and public medical expense payment systems to ensure that patients are not unable to receive treatment due to financial reasons such as financial difficulties with medical expenses and living expenses. The latter refers to the interpersonal service activities mainly carried out individually by medical social workers to eliminate the mental, social, and economic problems of patients and their families that arise in relation to health and medical care. Medical social worker activities began in the UK and the US at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, and in Japan they were carried out at St. Luke's Hospital (now St. Luke's International Hospital) and Saiseikai Hospital before World War II, but became more widespread after the war. ...

[Social Worker]

...Currently, the qualification of social welfare officer, as stipulated by the Social Welfare Services Law, is the basic qualification for the appointment of various welfare positions stipulated in the Public Assistance Law, Child Welfare Law, Maternal and Child Welfare Law (renamed the Mother and Child and Widow Welfare Law in 1981), Elderly Welfare Law, Physically Disabled Welfare Law, and Mentally Retarded Welfare Law. However, there is no qualification system for medical social workers in hospitals and health centers, so there is a need for professionals who work in the medical field as part of a team for the rehabilitation of patients and disabled people. The role of a medical social worker is to use various social welfare systems and services to adjust the patient and their environment, to help them live a recuperative life with peace of mind, and to help them recover their health and return to society. ...

*Some explanations of terms that refer to "medical social worker" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…前者は，医療費や生活費に困るというような経済的な理由などのために治療が受けられないことがないように，医療保険や公的扶助，医療費公費負担制度などの形で行われる社会福祉，社会保障，公衆衛生などの諸施策をさす。後者は，保健･医療に関連して生じる患者･家族の精神的，社会的，経済的な問題をとりのぞくために，主として個別的に行われる医療ソーシャル･ワーカーmedical social workerによる対人サービス活動をさすものとしてとらえられる。医療ソーシャル･ワーカーの活動は，19世紀末から20世紀初めにイギリスやアメリカで始められたもので，日本でも，第2次大戦前聖ルカ病院(現，聖路加国際病院)や済生会病院などで行われていたが，一般的には戦後になって普及した。…

【ソーシャル･ワーカー】より

…現在，社会福祉事業法で定められている社会福祉主事は，生活保護法，児童福祉法，母子福祉法(1981年〈母子および寡婦福祉法〉に改称)，老人福祉法，身体障害者福祉法，精神薄弱者福祉法などに定められた各福祉職任用の基礎資格となっている。しかし病院や保健所における医療福祉士medical social workerについては資格制度がないので，患者や障害者のリハビリテーションのために，チームワークの一員として医療の場で働く専門職の必要が説かれている。医療ソーシャル･ワーカーの任務は，各種の社会福祉制度やサービスなどを活用して患者とその環境を調整し，安心して療養生活を送ることができるよう援助するとともに，患者の健康の回復，社会復帰を助けることにある。…

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