A new study published today in the British Medical Journal recommended the incorporation of healthcare and social care. According to the researchers, there shouldn't be barrier between both services.
In Nigeria and other parts of the world, healthcare and social care are separate but according to this new study, both types of care are interwoven. They noted that social ills such as abuse, poverty, and lack of social connectedness had been strongly linked to poor health outcomes by many researchers.
"Individual needs can affect each other, amplifying disabilities, resulting in more complex and profound harms. Immobility breeds isolation, and isolation breeds depression. Health and social needs are two halves of a whole person," they stated.
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