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
- Influences multiple disease outcomes
- Multiple risk factors
- Access to resources
- 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