Health and Issues
What is Health?
A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.
What is Demedicalisation?
The process by which a problem stops being defined as a illness or a disorder.
Define Incidents
How often a disease occurs.
What are Health Issues?
Any physical, mental, or emotional condition.
What is Medicalisation?
The process by which non-medical processes become treated and defined as illnesses and disorders.
Define Prevalence
How many people have a particular condition this year and other years
What is Illness?
The subjective experience of disease or ill health.
State the Conflict Perspective on Health
There is inequality in the healthcare system, the problems of the healthcare system reflect the problems of the wider society.
Define Morbidity
Refers to the state of being unhealthy or ill
What are Disabilities?
State the Functionalist Perspective on Health
Illness was seen as a form of deviance, as it was the norm for persons in society to be healthy.
Define Morbidity Rate
The number of existing or new cases of a disease or condition for 1000 people
List 3 things that have caused a rise in death of young people
Suicide, Diabetes, Homicide and AIDS
State the Interactionist perspective on health
Health and Illness are seen as a social construct, interactionists believe social actors assign meanings to their health conditions.
Refers to the number of incidents of death in a population in a year's time