FMSC 381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Obstetrics And Gynaecology, Sick Individuals, Sick Role
31 Aug 2016
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Race mobility and higher mortality rates, poor access to health care. Gender men need vaccines and women need reproductive care (birth control, obgyn, etc. ) May not be given due to where they live. Fertility level of childbearing for an individual. Revealed relationship between illness (suicide) and the larger social structure. Good health and effective medical care are essential. Illness and how we treat it can reflect cultural assumptions and biases about a particular group. Health illness and medical responses are socially constructed and maintained. Relationship between doctor and patients is created and maintained through interaction. Health stats: life expectancy 78. 5 years, gaps between blacks and whites and men and women are narrowing, heart disease remains leading cause of death, accounting for. 617,000 in 2008: the us spends more on health care per capita than any other country, and health spending continues to increase. Sociological perspective on health illness and medicine: society impacts health which impacts illness.
