The responsibilities of the sick role include things like the individual taking all the reasonable steps to get better and to resume normal living as soon as possible. It also says the we need to co-operate with medical professionals and in order for society to run smoothly the ill must be cared for, as they cannot work and in some cases they cannot even look after themselves. The Marxist Approach This approach suggests that the services that health and social care provide are there to serve the interest of the more powerful and dominant social classes. Marxists believe that doctors are seen more as agents who are there to get people back to work as soon as possible, therefore working in the interest of the employer and not the patient. High levels of illness are more common in areas of low social class, areas of high unemployment and environmental pollution.
To help explain the different sociological approaches to health and ill health I will be referring to the case study of Aziz and Tamsela. Aziz and Tamsela have four young children; Tamsela’s elderly parents also live with them in their three bedroomed houses in a deprived and depressing area of London. Their house is in desperate need of repair; it is damp and due to this is very expensive to heat in the winter months. Aziz and Tamsela are both currently unemployed. The family also has very ill health; during the winter the children generally seem to have constant colds.
I will look on allocating resources for the elderly and end of life, and how it goes against ethical standards. Allocating Resources for the Elderly and Ethical Standards In an article by Craig (2010), it talks about how the health care resources has been diverted from the elderly and given to younger generations because they are the future and needs to stay healthier in life. This is an ethical issue that denies the elderly their right to health care. In this cases, though the elderly will not leave longer life compare to the younger people, but still need to receive their full health care till their last breath on earth. Ethical standards, I believe should be in allocating resources for elderly and end of life is the right to a good health care.
There will also be a Co-pay every three months, and government would automatically pay for the poor and pregnant women. The hospitals would compete for government funding based on how well they treated their patients. I would instate more technology in hospitals because it will aid us in helping patients get better and it could cut some spending costs. You would not be required to see a gatekeeper before seeing a specialist, you can choose which one you would like to see. There will also be a social health insurance fund, so if you lose your job you will not lose your health care.
An individual is responsible for their own health and decision which means they should be able to decide if they want any medical treatments for their illness to get better. People must ensure that they look after their own health such as personal hygiene and eat healthy diets when they are ill. The responsibilities of the sick role included: The sick person talking all the reasonable steps to get better and seeking to resume their normal place in society as soon as possible. Co – operating with medical professionals and choosing affective measures to improve their health condition. Every single individual in the society have their own roles and responsibility.
The Amish community are less like likely to use preventive treatments or annual checkups. The Amish are more likely to seek help from a doctor who they feel they can trust or one that understands the Amish community. A lot of modern communities around Amish communities have made Amish plain clinics to make the Amish feel more welcomed (Do Amish Vist Doctors?, 2010). The Amish communities the men folk are seen as the head of the house hold. This means that when their wives go into labor that, the wives will look to their husband for permission for pain management meds.
A child’s health care is the important concern of a pediatrician. A pediatrician is a doctor who specializes in pediatrics. They put their skills to use to care for children from infants throughout their teenage years. Parents prefer to have their children treated by nurses and pediatricians because children have special health care needs and those certain needs would only be left up to a pediatrician because that’s what pediatricians are for. Pediatrician can perform physical examination, measure vital statistics, take blood and urine samples, and prescribes certain medication for sick children.
They say that family is vital for 4 things in society: the regulation of sexual activity, reproducing and raising children, educating or socialising society’s way of life to the younger members and being an economic unit with clear divisions of labour between genders. With the decline in the nuclear family, they will believe that these four functions will diminish and society will not function in an adequate way. Where liberal feminists would not be happy about the decline in nuclear families as they believe that increasing equality exists between men and women, radical and Marxist feminists would think that it is a good thing. Radical feminists argue that men benefit much greater than women within the family environment. They say that gender roles which are allocated within a family are accepted by the women, which then goes on to disadvantage them in later life when it comes to things such as employment.
A Patient’s Bill of Rights was adopted in 1973 by the American Hospital Association in order to be able to provide effective health care services that are fair to both patient and medical personnel. June was hospitalized for severe anorexia and she initially agreed to have a feeding tube placed to save her life. I am sure her physicians informed her of the pros and cons of the placement of the feeding tube. According to the summary of the Florida Patient’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities within our textbook “a patient has the right to refuse treatment” (Showalter, p. 272). When she was in her right state of mind she consented to treatment.
The reason for this window of time for the infection to develop is because hospitals try to have the duration of hospital stays decreased. Therefore, the symptoms of the infections aren’t discovered until after the patient has returned home. Hospital-acquired infections are also an indication of how well patient care and safety is at the hospital. The safety and quality of care for the patients should always be a hospital’s first priority. Hospital-acquired infections are preventable and preventing them is straightforward: a code of cleanliness.