SOCIOL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Sick Role, Medicalization
16 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Sociology 101
12/1/2017
Lecture 29
Readings
Social determinant of health reading
- health care
- not only thing that matters
- society also shapes health
- society shaped by:
- class status
- education
- wealth
- environment
- income
- race
- they impact health
- how to improve health care
- free college
- free health care
- access to healthy foods
- lower cost goods
- healthy grocery stores in every neighborhood
- regulate fast food places
- affordable food
- increase taxes on fast food
- access to safe housing
- Weltz reading
- key concepts
- sick role
- functionalist perspective
- must have legitimate sickness
- sick is not blamed
- sick must pursue wellness
- seek out doctor and listen to them
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