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provides an analytical framework for understanding the social contexts of health, illness and health care.
medical sociology
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central topics of medical sociology
health and illness, political, economic and environmental circumstances fostering ill health
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why is medical sociology important?
Social factors play a critical role in determining or influencing the health of individuals, groups and society as a whole.
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efforts to improve social health
social medicine
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concluded that medicine is a social science by studying typhus fever
Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902)
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* Medical sociology truly became a discipline of its own in the 1950s and 60s due to 4 primary reasons
* 1. Changing patterns of morbidity and morality * 2. The Impact if Preventative Medicine and Public Health * 3. The Impact of Modern Psychiatry * 4. The Impact of Administrative
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Why have chronic disease become prevalent in the modern industrialized world?
aging
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how do we handle risk factors of chronic disease
* Understand risk factors, If you cant treat it medically, treat it behaviorally and socially
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* Examples of how we handle the onset of chronic disease in society
* No smoking in bars and restaurants, higher taxes on cigarettes, take coke machines out of schools,
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why were infectious diseases spreading around the world?
mass transportation, air travel
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new type of infectious disease
STD's
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why did std's increase dramatically worldwide in 1970's
* 1. Birth control pill lead people to increased promiscuity * 2. Sexual liberation increased permissiveness * 3. Migrant employment in developing nations spread disease from urban to rural areas. * 4. The availability of multiple partners on an unprecedented scale
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In the mid 1900s the focus included social factors
* poverty * malnutrition * congested living areas
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