Health and Medicine Flashcards
Anxiety Disorders:
Feelings of worry and fearfulness that last for months at a time.
Commodification:
The changing of something not generally thought of as a commodity into something that can be bought and sold in a marketplace.
Contested Illnesses:
Illnesses that are questioned or considered questionable by some medical professionals.
Demedicalization:
The social process that normalizes sick behavior.
Disability:
A reduction in one’s ability to perform everyday tasks, the World Health Organization notes that this is a social limitation.
Epidemiology:
The study of the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases.
Impairment:
The physical limitations a less-able person faces.
Individual Mandate:
A government rule that requires everyone to have insurance coverage or they will have to pay a penalty.
Legitimation:
The act of a physician certifying that an illness is genuine.
Medical Sociology:
The systematic study of how humans manage issues of health and illness, disease and disorders, and healthcare for both the sick and the healthy.
Medicalization:
The process by which aspects of life that were considered bad or deviant are redefined as sickness and needing medical attention to remedy.
Medicalization Of Deviance:
The process that changes bad behavior into sick behavior.
Mood Disorders:
Long-term, debilitating illnesses like depression and bipolar disorder.
Morbidity:
The incidence of disease.
Mortality:
The number of deaths in a given time or place.
