Sociology Being ill is not a simple thing! Why do sociologists see it as being a problem? When we think of health and illness, there is a general conception that it involves health habits such as exercise and eating the right food, as well as institutions such as hospitals and doctors. In Western societies it is commonly accepted that if we are ill it is a result of an infectious disease that can be cured by modern medicine, or is a result of genetics or lifestyle choices. Sociologists propose a different cause.
To achieve P2: Describe the concept of health and ill health and explain how to carry out a holistic assessment. Explain the following different sociological approaches to health and ill health and how they apply to health and social care: The functionalist approach; The Marxist Approach; social action approach; The feminist approach You will need to produce a PowerPoint presentation which describes the bases of discrimination. You will then describe discriminatory practice in health and social care settings. Use examples to illustrate your points Members of staff have been asking why they should be aware of discrimination and you have decided to design a document to look at the potential effects of discrimiYou may wish to add to your document a thorough review of the effects of discriminatory practice. You will have to examine the effects of three different discriminatory practices in care settings.
Although, many sociologists engage in conflict when deciding on a definition of ‘healthy’ they tend to predominantly agree with the WHO’s definition. This concept ‘absence of disease’, can be seen as a negative concept of health as it is concerned with an individual’s physical, intellectual, social and emotional wellbeing. Due to the WHO’s definition many health care provisions have taken to using holistic methods of treatment in order to address the needs of the ‘whole’ person. The biomedical model is one approach to health and illness that sociologists use. This model identifies health as the ‘absence of disease’ with specific focus on diagnosing and curing individuals with illnesses such as cancer.
The medical model looks at the body as a machine, where if it were to break down, a doctor would take on the role of an engineer and attempt to fix it. Unlike the social model, the medical model of health does not take into account social aspects which can also have an effect on health and illness. The social model of health tends to focus on sociological factors, linking illness to things such as poverty, poor housing and unemployment. Eg, the impact that poverty and social class has on illness and health are reflected in life expectancy figures. Although life expectancy in the UK has risen, there is still a gap in life expectancy between the middle class and the working class.
Word count 1439 Discuss how social health and behavioural sciences impact on the physical and mental health of an individual. The mental state of a person is significantly influenced by social activities in the environment the person lives in (Black et al. 1980). The above statement supports researches which indicates that there is empirical evidence to demonstrate inequalities between health and the social classes of societies especially in Britain where the research was done. This essay attempts to provide an overview on human sociological activities, behaviour and experience and how it affects the physical and mental health of an individual.
3. Psycho Social Influences * What are the psychological and Social causes for this inequality in health E.G. Why is heart disease more prevalent in lower socioeconomic groups? What are the direct and indirect influences on this inequality? * Structure * Housing * Education * Employment * Geographical and Social Isolation * Poverty * Agency Inequalities in health such as can lead to a variety of conditions such as 4.
The Register General classification scheme is still used in Britain today, although Class III (skilled occupations) was split in 1970 into manual (IIIa) and non-manual (IIIb) occupations (Susser et al, 1985). The creation of an ordinal scale of occupations has allowed contemporary British researchers to demonstrate a strong inverse social class gradient in disease (DHSS DoHaSS, 1992). These findings could not be explained by access to health care as the British have long had a system of socialized medicine. From this critical perspective, there is a strong association between social class and health, and robustness of this relationship is particularly striking for some diseases like tuberculosis, HIV, etc. The Role of Social Class across the Life Course From the critical perspective, along with genes and race, social class tends to be passed from parents to their offspring.
It is very persistence and can be termed as a irrational fear of certain situations or objects (Medicine.net, 2000) INTRODUCTION: Erving Goffman and Michael Foucault are social scientists trying to explain that how social order is created in a society and where is it originated from. To start with let me talk about who creates social order so according to Goffman the people in the way of living and actions in their day to day life determines the social order. INTERACTION ORDER According to Goffman social interaction is a deliberate interaction between the person and the social entities and environment. The behaviour and the style of a person depend on the impression he wants to create in the minds of the other person. The social interaction is manipulated.
The effect of social integration on health is conclusively documented in the theory of ‘social support’ [Cassel, 1976]1. The effect of social and economic inequality on health is profound too. Poverty, which is a result of social and economic inequality in a society, is detrimental to the health of population. The outcome indicators of health (mortality, morbidity and life expectancy) are all directly influenced by the standards of living of a given population. More so, it is not the absolute deprivation of income that matters, but the relative distribution of income [Wilkinson, 1992]2.
Introduction. The title of this assignment; ‘The Importance of Infection Control for the Individual, Community and the Workplace’ in itself requires little or no explanation. If infections are not prevented and/or controlled they will spread and as a result the consequences are quite undesirable; people can get very sick indeed and in some cases they may even die. In our workplace, which is a healthcare environment, the importance of infection control is even greater and cannot be understated. We care for patients, be they elderly and weak, sick or both.