SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Population Health, Medicalization, Telehealth
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Coined by robert aronowitz (2008) - a mechanism that addresses the way we recognize, define, name, and classify disease states and assign them to a cause or set of causes. Field of sociology that examines the social context of health, illness, and health care. A medical perspective that emphasizes western scientific principles, defines health as absence of illness, views human body as a machine needing repairs, promotes use of therapeutic intervention e. g. drugs, surgery to cure diseases and injury. Positive state of existence characterized by happiness, prosperity and the satisfaction of basic human needs, and not simply an absence of negative conditions such as illness or injury. Defined by who in 1946 after ww2: state of complete physical, mental and social well-being . A medical perspective that considers health and disease as products of the interaction between body, mind and environment. An applied science that examines the causes, distribution and control of diseases in a population.
