SOC 475 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Paternalism, Slippery Slope, Structural Level
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Medical and sociological perspectives on health and illness. Limitations of modern medicine; derived by mckeown: states that modern medicine is not the primary cause of infectious diseases decline in. 1700, but instead by social conditions: e. g. ) improved sanitation, nutrition, rise in standard living, causes are social, such as, rise in the standard of living, nutrition, improved sanitation and hygiene public health measures. Illness vs. disease: disease: biopsychological phenomena that manifest themselves as changes in and malfunctions of the human body, not evenly distributed in populations, illness: the experience of being sick or diseased. Social model of disease & illness: interaction between external environments in which people live and internal environments of the human body. Chronic diseases: chronic diseases are the major cause of death at 70 , top four causes of chronic diseases, heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, stroke.
