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      A Comparative Literature Review on Contributions of Social workers in Kenya and Slovakia to Palliative Care Multidisciplinary Team (Review)

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          Introduction: Effective Management of terminally ill patients involves a multidisciplinary team. Social Work is one of the professions that contributes to this team. Objective of this review is to compare how Social Workers in Kenya and Slovakia contribute to the palliative care team. Methods: A traditional type of literature review was employed in writing this article. It involved search of articles published in online databases such as ProQuest Central, Oxford Journals, Science Direct, Springer Link and Wiley Online Library. Some of the key words used were: Palliative Care and Multidisciplinary Team. Results: Social Workers in both countries contribute to a multidisciplinary team with slight differences. For instance, Slovak Social Workers focus more on social advocacy such as seeking powers of the attorney to represent their clients in state offices unlike to their counterparts in Kenya who only come into contact with the legal system when summoned by Courts of law. Conclusion: In both countries, Kenya and Slovakia, Social Workers immensely contribute to the multidisciplinary team which goes a long way in addressing factors that may hamper effectiveness of palliative care.

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                Title: Clinical Social Work and Health Intervention
                Abbreviated Title: CSWHI
                Publisher: Journal of Clinical Social Work and Health Intervention
                ISSN (Print): 2222386X
                ISSN (Electronic): 20769741
                Publication date Created: December 28 2017
                Publication date (Print): December 28 2017
                Volume: 8
                Issue: 4
                Pages: 75-78
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                DOI: 10.22359/cswhi_8_4_09
                Copyright statement: © 2017
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