The Social Construction of Health
Determines which illnesses are stigmatized or not.
What is society?
One of the biggest contributors to medical issues in low income countries.
What is a lack of access to clean water and basic sanitation resources?
The number of hour kids spend per day on a screen.
What is 7.5 hours a day?
What does WHO stand for?
World Health Organization
A day of chicken noodle soup, warm blanket, and your favorite tv show.
What is a sick day?
The systematic study of which determines how humans manage issues of health and illness, disease and disorders, and healthcare for both the sick and the healthy.
What is Medical Sociology?
Low income nations suffer significantly from these diseases.
What is Malaria and Tuberculosis?
The percentage of Americans that eat more sodium than is recommended.
What is 90%?
Medical help and board or people coming in for visits or being visited for checkups.
What is impatient vs outpatient?
A process in which “sick” behavior is normalized again.
What is demedicalition?
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being versus any activity intended to improve health.
What is the difference between Health & Healthcare?
Diseases that are much more common in high income countries.
What is heart disease, respiratory disease and obesity?
The leading cancer in the US.
What is breast cancer?
A group of goals created by the United Nations, which are commonly called MDGs.
Millenium Development Goals
Patterns of expectations that define the behavior for the sick and for those who take care of them.
What is a sick role?
Social stigmas, hinder individuals as well as healthcare institutions, as discrimination against certain diseases keep people from seeking help for their illness.
What is the Stigmatization of Illness?
The Study of the causes and distribution of diseases.
What is epidemiology ?
The percentage of birth defects that affect babies born in the US annually.
What is 3% or one in 33 babies?
The US rank in regards to health care.
What is 27?
A theory where good health care and effective medicine is essential for a smooth working society.
What is Functionalism?
illnesses that are questioned or questionable by medical professionals, (Such as ADHD, Fibromyalgia, Chronic fatigue etc.)
What is a contested illness?
The number of people that live in places where protracted crises and weak health services leave them without access to basic care.
What is more than 1.6 billion people?
Recent studies project that by what year half of all adults in the USA will be obese.
What is 2030?
The 4 types of healthcare models.
What is Out-of-pocket, National Health Insurance Model, Bismark model, and Beveridge model.
A theory of social inequality where the poor receive inadequate health care, and physicians raise their rates to increase income.
What is the Conflict theory?