Social work in malignant hematological diseases

Abstract

Social Work in health began in 1900 at Massachusetts General
Hospital in the US. At that time the way of treating patients where
previously the home care has been dominant, progressively started to
change to the gradual approximation of hospital treatment.
Simultaneously with the changing of the site of treatment i.e. care,
the professionals were beginning to understand that the conditions in
which the patients lived and their personal problems are one of the factors
for their illness and recovery.
In that same hospital center, starts a home visiting program to
patients by medical students and interns, so they could have the
opportunity to know the patients, the way they live and in which
conditions they live in.