Sociology of Medicine

Sociology 210 with Hansell at Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway

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By: Cory Orlando
Textbook:

Medical Sociology (11th Edition)
Created: 2010-02-22
Size: 31 flashcards
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Self Limiting Diseases

Diseases that go away by themselves, and can not be cured by modern medicine

What increase in lifespan?

mostly due to advances in nutrition and public health

Cause of chronic diseases?

mostly by unhealthy lifestyle, environmental pollution, and a little bit by genetics

Study of Morbidity

Study of illness

Etiology

what causes illness

Study of Mortality

study of death

Study of patient help seeking

1. perceive a health problem
2. define a problem
3. decide to seek help
4. decide what kind of help to get

Doctor-patient relationships

Good communication between doctors and patients is crucial to effective diagnosis and treatment

Alternative healers

- self-help groups
- chiropractic medicine
- dietary and exercise groups
- religious groups
- faith healers

HMO

Health maintenance organization

PPO

preferred provider organization

IPO

Individual provider organization

Different types of hospitals

public vs. private
for-profit vs. non-profit

CDC

Center for Disease Control

Legal and Ethic Issues

- mercy killing
- assisted suicide
- living wills to limit treatment
- insanity defense
- organ transplants
- fertilization technology
- cloning

Major players of health politics

- patients
- doctors
- health insurance
- private insurance
- public insurance

3 pandemics wiped out large portions of population

1. 400-500 AD Rome
2. 1347-1665 Europe
3. 1896 - 1933 Asia

Transmission of bubonic plague

rats carry fleas, which carry the bacteria

When fleas carry bacteria to a new rat population without immunity, the rats die off, the fleas jump to humans, and a human epidemic breaks out

Effects of plague in Europe

1. depopulation leads to breakdown of community
2. becchini
3. failure of quarantine
4. violent anti-seminism
5. flagellism
6. clergy lost power
7. feudal system broke down

Concepts of disease evolved from diagnostic process

- doc listens to patient
- doc examines patient
- doc describes symptoms and organizes them into clusters
- doc matches observed symptom clusters with typologies of know symptoms

DSM II

neuroses, Oedipal conflicts

DSM III

behavorial description of mental illness

DSM IV

refined and improved

Epidemiology

study of distribution of disease

Incidence

refers to the number of new case of a specific health disorder occurring with a given population during a stated period of time

Prevalance

total number of cases of a health disorder that exists at any given time

Transmission of infectious agent requires...

-infected source
- agent of infection
- susceptible host
- site of exit from source
- site of entry into host

3 stages of human life

- Stage 1 - hunter gatherer
- Stage 2 - Agriculture
- Stage 3 - modern complex socitey

causes of hypertension

- salt consumption
- genetic transmission
- stress
- disadvantages of modern life (war)

SES

Socio-economic status

3 variables of SES

1. Income
2. Occupational prestige
3. Level of Education

About this deck

By: Cory Orlando
Textbook:

Medical Sociology (11th Edition)
Created: 2010-02-22
Size: 31 flashcards
Views: 194

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