SOC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Junk Food, Prevalence, Preventive Healthcare
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Health extent to which a person experiences a state of mental, physical, and social well- Medicine institutionalized system for the scientific diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illness: preventive medicine emphasizes a healthy lifestyle that will prevent poor health before it occurs. Illness is biologically and socially defined: society doesn"t hold a person accountable for their lifestyle that caused the illness. Sick person obligated to seek medical help: everyone has a role to play in the sick form (doctors, patients, etc. ) In middle of 20th century, people addicted to alcohol were seen as weak: 1956 alcoholism declared an illness, society changed their perspective. Someone addicted to illegal drugs is more likely than an alcoholic to be denied the sick role: possibility of being sent to prison and may/may not be referred for treatment, drug addiction seen as illness or deviance . Health care all those activities intended to sustain, promote, and enhance health.
