Models of Health
This model supports the notion that health is the absence of physical illness and disease
What is the biomedical model of health
This social theory adopted the concept of the “sick role”
What is Structural functionalism
This principle of the Canada Health Act requires all medically necessary services be covered
What is Comprehensiveness
This sociological concept describes the shift from traditional/emotional ways of understanding the world to logic, rules, and efficiency.
This term refers to the increasing influence of pharmaceutical companies over how we define, diagnose, and treat health problems.
What is pharmaceuticalization?
What is Cartesian dualism (mind/body dualism)
According to conflict theory, there is a fundamental conflict between these two social classses
What are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?
Will also accept capitalist and working class
This principle ensures that people are not charged user fees for medically necessary hospital or physician services
What is accessibility
In Weber’s theory, this metaphor describes the stifling effects of excessive bureaucracy and rules in modern institutions, including healthcare.
What is the iron cage
This type of drug development strategy involves creating medications that are similar to existing ones just enough to secure a new patent.
What are "me-too" drugs
This defining characteristic states that illness often derives from an individual's social environment
What is Social Production/Distribution of Health and Illness
This is a key debate in sociology over the extent to which human behaviour is determined by social structure
What is the structure vs agency debate
This government is responsible for administering health care
What is the Provinces and Territories
This term refers to the process of organizing services like healthcare to mimic fast food operations — focusing on speed, predictability, and efficiency.
What is McDonaldization
This term describes negative outcomes that result not from the illness, but from the treatment itself — such as harmful drug side effects.
What is iatrogenesis
This perspective critiques the overmedicalization of social problems
What is the social model of health
According to Conflict Theory, this key concept affects people’s access to health resources and care.
What is social stratification (or class inequality)?
This federal legislation governs public healthcare in Canada
What is the Canada Health Act
Born in 1820, this pioneer laid the foundation for professional nursing for decades to come
Who is Florence Nightingale
Name one tactic pharmaceutical companies use to influence prescribing patterns among doctors.
What is drug rep visits, free samples, or sponsored CME events?
This notion believes that scientific methods of measurement and observation are the most superior form of knowledge about understanding and treating disease
What is medical scientism
This theorist argued that by prioritizing productivity over well-being, medical institutions are tools of social control.
Who is Karl Marx?
This report advised the elimination of the apprenticeship system, the standardization of entrance requirements to medical schools, and the establishment of a more rigorous scientific program of study.
What is the Flexner Report
This third period of nursing, brought major changes for nurses including unionization, rationalization of health care, and new managerialism in hospitals
What is post-WWII (second world war)
Biomedicalization is often tied to this broader political and economic system that emphasizes market solutions and self-governance.
What is neoliberalism?