SOCI 2030 Lecture Notes - Sub-Saharan Africa, Prostate Cancer, Peter Piot
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The sick role is that your normal routine is suspended, you must want to get better, seek competent help and cooperate w/ practitioners. Thus the medical establishment has lost some power in a growth to patient activism. Today in canada, 1/3 of canadians follow their doctor"s advice w/o asking questions. People today are taught how to perform simple routine medical procedures on themselves. Today, more people are going to the internet to get medical information. Today, more people prefer several treatment options rather than a single course of action. This is the rise in the informed patient and rise in patient confidence. 76% are more likely to ask their doctors now than in the past. You sually find this in places of extreme poverty. Particularly people who are not healthy and have weak immune system. Haiti is the poorest country in that are. Good example of political activism influencing medical authority (not all)
