Gezond en wel participeren
AbstractHealthy participation in society. The value of social work in health promotion
 An important condition for health and well-being is an active role in society. Most people feel much better and actually have a better health when they participate in (voluntary) work, sports, clubs, et cetera. This is the case for healthy people but probably even more so for less able people. Therefore the focus in health promotion is moving from the individual to the (social) environment. Especially social support systems get a lot of attention. Surprisingly, social work professionals are not a natural partner in health promotion. While their focus and competences lie with building, supporting and maintaining social support systems. In this article we show how social work can play it’s part in modern health promotion.
In Zwolle werken welzijnswerk en gezondheidsbevordering samen aan gezondheid in de wijk
Zwolle, social work and health promotion collaborating towards a healthy neighbourhood.The development of the collaboration is evaluated and described. Organising activities resulted in support of social workers to work at improving health, and showed the needs for clear tasks and roles. Therefore, a project officer of social work was assigned, together with the health broker, to embed healthy lifestyle in their regular work. These functions are an important condition for successful collaboration. Others are: supporting the social workers with training and tools; embedding of health in policy within the organisation and the local government; local management and integral approach.
CATARACT: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.
The earliest extant description of a surgical operation for the cure of cataract is that of Celsus, toho practiced medicine in Rome at the beginning of the Christian era. In his text De Meclicina he described in detail his method of couching, by which he inserted a bronze needle into the eye at the equator on the lateral side of ihe globe and depressed the cataract downward into the lower part of the vitreous where the surgeon hoped it would remain out of the way of vision. The same method had been employed by the Greeks and Hindus for at least several hundred years earlier and ivas to continue as the only operation available until the middle of the eighteenth century when Daviel of Paris described extraction of the lens through the cornea. The early couchers worked on the premise that the crystallin humor we know as the lens was the receptor for vision, and that in certain conditions of disease a suffusion flowed doivn in front of the crystallin humor where it solidified and formed a dense curtain. The purpose of couching was to press the hardened corrupt humor out of the way of the lens. That cataract was opaque material within the lens itself was not recognized until after the middle of ihe seventeenth century. Until then ihe surgeons were not even aware that it was the lens they were dislocating.