CAS SO 215 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sick Role, Universal Health Care, Caffeine
24 Feb 2014
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Introduction: sociological enterprise, social structure biography and social structure law, organizations, medical sociology illness. The effort to explore the relationship between individual. Patterned institutionalized social status (race, religion, family, Health is not simply a matter of biology, but involves a number of factors that are cultural, political, economic, and social in nature. Epidemiology study of the origin and distribution of health problems in the population from the collection of data from many different sources. Incidence: number of new cases of a specific health disorder occurring within a given population during a state period of time. Primary cause of death in the us: heart disease. Different disease paradigms from ghost map: miasma theory (dominant) smell = disease, disease was spread through odor. Bad smell = bad air: contagion/germ theory disease caused by pathogens, spread through water. Most believed miasma theory easier to believe because the smell was clearly present and detectable.
