Chapter 16 - Health and Medicine Flashcards

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Health

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State of mental, physical, and social well being

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Medicine

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institutionalized system for the scientific diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illness

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Preventative medicine

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Medicine emphasizing a healthy lifestyle that will prevent poor health before it occurs

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Sick role

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The cultural definition of the appropriate behavior of and response to people labeled as sick.
Rights:
- excused from social roles
- not responsible for the illness
Obligations:
- seek medical treatment
- to try to get well
(Mostly applies to acute illness)
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Medicalization of deviance

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deviance is a manifestation of illness

  • foreskin leads to more masturbation
  • ADHD and low T treatment
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Health Care

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All those activities intended to sustain, promote, and enhance health

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Social Inequalities in Health

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  • Poor people suffer more chronic illness and die earlier
  • Poverty affects food security, housing stability, and maltreatment. Malnutrition, stunted growth, and suppressed immunity
  • Exposed to violence more
  • Work is more dangerous
  • Live in air polluted places
  • Less healthy diets
  • Less likely to believe they need to see a doctor
  • Lower class women more likely to die due to cancer (no preventative treatment)
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Life Expectancy

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  • race and class so securely interconnect, racial minorities suffer from poorer health than white people
  • Overall: 78.7
  • White women: 81.3
  • Black women: 78.2
  • White men: 76.6
  • Black men 72.1
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Fundamental Cause Theory

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Explains why SES and health correlate

  1. Influences multiple disease outcomes
  2. Multiple risk factors
  3. Access to resources
  4. Reproduced over time (cyclic)
  • Resources: knowledge, money, power, social connections
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Health Gradient

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As income increases so do health outcomes

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Access to Healthcare

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  • Poor are unable to access regular care and treatment
  • Workplace coverage
  • Medicare: over 65
  • Medicaid: for the very poor, excludes a lot of people due to financial qualifications (too little to afford, but too much to qualify - service industry)
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Morbidity

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The rate of illness

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Mortality

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The rate of death

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Obesity

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  • BMI >= 30
  • 2nd to smoking as most common cause of mortality
  • Eat out more, especially fast food
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