Disease and Disability Flashcards
What is meant by illness?
How sick the person is and how it is percieved by those around them.
Lived experience of monitoring bodily processes
Define medicalisation
When previously non-medical problems are defined and treated as medical problems
Define the theory of symbolic interactionism?
Microlevel theory that emphasises how humans interact with things, how things come from our interactions and how things are interpreted by a perosn dealing with things in a particular circumstances
How does interactionism relate to illness and disease?
Not synonymous
Define demedicalisation
Promotes self-care, patient empowerment and autonomy
Describe the social model of disability
Rejects disability as deviant and regard negative experiences of disability as a consequence of societal oppression
Advantages of medicalisation
Saves lives
Describe inequalities experienced by people with a learning and physical disability
Poverty - more common in family with a disabled member
Education- no formal qualification Communication - internet access Employment Accessing Goods and Services Housing
Explain diagnostic overshadowing
Symptoms of physical ill health are mistakenly attributed to either a mental health/ behavioural problem or as being inherent in the person’s learning disabilities
What is contested illness?
Symptoms for which medical experts can find no organic cause
What are the disadvantages of medicalisation?
Increases the risk of latrogenesis
What is disability?
The outcome of the interaction between a person with an impairment and the environmental and attitudinal barriers he or she may face
