Sociological Perspectives on Health and Medicine
People who are sick are temporarily exempt from normal obligations but must want to get well and seek competent care.
what is Functionalist's Perspective on health care?
The first step to treating Mental Illness
Whats is convincing people that Mental Illness exists?
What chapter are we presenting?
Chapter 14: Health, Healthcare, and Disability
The study of the causes and distribution of health, disease, and impairment throughout a population.
What is social epidemiology?
Problems in health care are rooted in the capitalist system, exemplified by the medical-industrial complex.
What is The Conflict Perspectives on Health care?
Who discovered Mental Disorders?
The Hippocrates
Emil Kraepelin, pioneered it
Dr. Quinton T Ross Jr
Who is the president of ASU?
Any activity intended to improve health.
What is health care?
People socially construct both "health" and "illness" and how both should be treated.
What is The Symbolic Interactionist's Perspective?
Rapidly discharging patients from mental hospitals into the community.
What is Deinstitutionalization?
When did Mental Health begin?
550 million years ago
An institutionalized system for the scientific diagnosis, treatment and prevention of illness.
What is medicine?
Doctors gain power through observing patients to gather information, this appearing to speak wisely.
What is The Postmodernist Perspective?
What happens to most mentally ill people?
They don't receive the help they need, due to people not believing mental illness is real and not having the funding to receive treatment or proper care.
1867
What is the founding year of ASU?
A statistical estimate of the average number of years that a person born in a specific year will live.
What is life expectancy?
The process whereby non-medical problems become defined and treated as illnesses or disorders
What is Medicalization?
Society and Researchers/Doctors reaction to Mental Illness?
Society frowned upon mentally ill people because of lack of knowledge. Researchers theorized mental illness into 3 categories:
- Possession of evil spirit or the devil
- Genetic illness, Brain damage, or an Imbalance
- Traumatic or Stressful experiences
Name 1 common mental illness or disorder
ANXIETY, PTSD, BIPOLAR DISORDER, OCD, PERSONALITY DISORDER, SOCIAL PHOBIA, DEPRESSION, DEMENTIA, SCHIZOPHRENIA, EATING DISORDER, AUTISM, SUBSTANCE ABUSE...etc.
The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births in a given year.
What is infant mortality rate?