International Scientific Group Of Applied Preventive Medicine I - Gap Vienna, Austria
About Current Issue:
“Health Promotion/Education and Quality of Life”
- Slim Physique Image for Female: Discovering its Socio-psychological Outcomes
- Labor Migration of Ukrainians and its Importance for Development of Family Relations and Social Sphere of Ukraine
- Do Midwifes Represent Risk of “Stealing” Patients from OBG Physicians? Not in Low and Middle-income System
- Facebook and Propaganda: Following Politics on Facebook and its Impact on Political Behaviors of Youth
- An Analysis of Community Perceptions Towards Migration, Economic Development and Family Well-Being in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan
- Comparison of Ordinary Medical Care Centers/Partnerships and Practice Clinic in Germany
- Opinions of Caring Professionals on Satisfying of Spiritual Needs in Palliative Care
- The Same Question: Are Migrants from the Middle East to Greece Carriers of Resistant Bacteria? In 2015, the Answer was No, but in 2019 it is Yes (Letter to editor)
- Suicide and Society: The Sociological Approach
- For the Definition of the Methodology of Nursing Education
- Voices of Gender Discrimination: A Feminist Stylistic Analysis of Khaled Husseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Application of PedsQLTM Questionnaires to the Evaluation of Quality of Life in Families with Children with Selected Diagnoses
Highlights:
CSW no. 3, vol. 10, 2019
Guest Editorial
Health Promotion and Education as prevention of social pathology: A global Millennium Goal
Health promotion and education is an organic part of health intervention and a valuable bridge between Health and Social Work. Several diseases as well as many risk factors for social pathology are directly linked to under-education, illiteracy and absence of general overview not only among public, but surprisingly among Health Care and Social Work students.
Under-education and absence of health promotion is responsible for the spread of many communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmittable diseases. Among non-communicable epidemic disorders, absence of education in social and health sciences is responsible for under nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia, as well as in some areas of Latin America. Under-education is sometimes a consequence of cast systems, religious, gender, economic and/or racial discrimination resulting in several social and health pathologies, not just in marginalized communities (refugees, migrant women with minors, homeless, etc.) surprisingly not only in developing (low resource) but also in developed countries.
Therefore, education in Social Sciences (Social Work, Sociology, Psychology) and health subjects (Medicine, Nursing and Physiotherapy for elderly and chronical ill. Midwifery for women and minors should be an organic part of education not only in schools of healthcare and in arts educational programs, but at least for first year as a part of universal baccalaureate of letters, health sciences, arts, and even in Natural and Technical Sciences. Graduates of colleges independently of completed program, arts or sciences, are faced on a daily basis of the worldwide consequences of under-education even illiteracy as a part of economic, racial, gender, religious discrimination and isolation. Lack of education in health and social sciences may be considered as root(s) of social pathology especially such as in borderline age groups, minors, youth and elderly, vice versa as deadly synergy for global health and social welfare.
Selvaraj Subramaniam
Chair Nutrition and Public Health, SAARM/SEU
Joint MSc Program, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
