498: Social Work & Public Health

498: Social Work & Public Health

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Introduction

Social work and public health have been some of the most crucial sectors as far as the health of the nation is concerned. Social workers are charged with the responsibility of enhancing or improving the lives of the less fortunate as well as easing the challenges that these people face in their lives. It goes without saying that the recent past has seen tremendous changes in these two sectors. This is especially as a result of the introduction of technology, in an effort to improve or enhance the quality and efficiency of service provision in these two sectors. It is worth noting that, as much as quite a lot has changed as far as the introduction or entry of technology is concerned these two sectors are still lagging. In fact, information technology has not been fully incorporated in the public health sector (Tulchinsky & Varavikova, 2009).

Nevertheless, the fact that various public health facilities have adopted information technology and enhances their efficiency has pushed other facilities to adopt it albeit sparingly. In essence, I envision a future where the provision of public health services will be entirely tied to information technology. This means that it will be possible for an individual to get all the services that he needs in one place. The efficiency of the agencies will be tremendously increased thereby increasing their reach (Tulchinsky & Varavikova, 2009). In essence, public health facilities will have an enhanced reach in communities located at far –flung or marginalized areas. In this case, public health sector will have enhanced effectiveness in attaining its objectives or desired outcomes. This underlines the fact that it will have an enhanced capacity to measurably-attain its goals. Organizations will also be able to develop an entirely new competence, in which case it would be responding in new and innovative ways thereby creating and delivering outcomes that were previously unattainable (Tulchinsky & Varavikova, 2009).

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