HLTHAGE 1AA3 Final: 2
14 Jul 2018
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Is key to address the multi-layered field of study. Disciplinarity distinctions: sociology, focuses on the power of institutions and institutional practices, focus on how social structures shape the experiences of individuals who reside in them, takes on a macro/micro approach. Institutions that promote health, empower hospital staff, and disempower patients. It focuses on the iatrogenic effects of care: social gerontology: social analysis of aging; focuses on the social constructs of fraility, dementia, and healthy aging, professional domains: e. g. nursing, social work, rehabilitation science. The contributions are most apparent in the meso level and they look at issues that exist in the development of care. They research on alternative models/ practices of care and healing. Working across disciplines: multidisciplinarity: process of including many discrete disciplinary perspectives in a study. Interdisciplinarity: researchers draw on their knowledge from various disciplines to understand a topic: transdisciplinarity: moves across disciplines to understand a topic.
