Final Exam Flashcards
Describe Feminist Paradigm
- Patriarchal… men dominate women
- “gendered” experiences
- What parts played by structural and behavioural determinants shape women and men’s subjective experience of health and illness
- Intersectionality and mixed methods
- Ann Oakley
Describe Symbolic Interactionist Paradigm
- socially constructed product of interactions
-“interpersonal meanings” - How do individuals socially construct meanings of health and illness?
- micro, participant observation, Erving Goffman
Describe conflict paradigm
- capitalist social system of inequity, competing interest groups, power struggles
-“professional constructs” - medical dominance
Explain structural functionalist paradigm
- Harmonious social system with interconnected parts
- “social roles”
- How does the threat of illness pose on stability of social system
- SICK ROLE Talcott Parsons
What are the rights and duties of a sick person?
Rights
1. not their fault
2. temporarily exempt from normal social behaviours
Duties
1. Try to get well ASAP
2. Expected to seek competent help and comply with recommended medical treatment
Describe sociology of the body
- society and social relations shape and are shaped by human bodies
- “embodied cultural facts”
- How have medical discourses of body shaped understandings of body and bodily conduct
- “medical gaze”
- Michel Foucault
Describe life course perspective
- Society dynamic intersection of individual biographies and historical events
-“unfolding across time” - how are current and future health status shaped by past experiences and timing
-LIFE COURSE - Glenn Elder Jr
Why do health, illness, disease change over time?
- physical changes in disease
-change in what’s important (mental health) - Advances in technology
- moral frameworks imposed, new ideas
Describe levels of prevention
- Primordial (everyone, reduce risk, health promotion)
- Primary (susceptible, reduce incidence, remove cause, immunization)
- Secondary (asymptomatic, reduce prevalence, screening, early diagnosis)
- Tertiary (symptomatic, reduce complications, treatment)
How many people have HIV
38.4 million
What is cumulative incidence?
Proportion of people who become diseased specific time period
New cases / people at risk at beginning
What are some types of host factors?
- Behaviours
- Acquired
- Transitory
What does pandemic mean?
Many epidemics that spread outside local region and effecting people in various/all parts of world
What is incidence rate?
Measure of rate of development of a disease in a population
(# new cases)/(person time)
What is an epidemic?
Outbreak of a disease in localized group of people
1. vectors
2. carriers
3. sudden intro of new pathogen
More cases than expected
Describe triad of distribution and triad of causation
Triad of distribution - person, place, time (descriptive)
Triad of causation - Host, Environment, Agent (analytical)
What is the meaning of endemic?
cases are continually occurring in a population
What is prevalence?
Proportion of individuals in a population with disease at given point in time
(# cases all @ pt in time) / total population
Who’s John Snow?
- Cholera outbreaks
- Broad st. pump theory
- epidemiologist
- Map of deaths, found cause was water