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.
Personality Disorders:
Disorders that cause people to behave in ways that are seen as abnormal to society but seem normal to them.
Private Healthcare:
Health insurance that a person buys from a private company. Private healthcare can either be employer-sponsored or direct-purchase.
Public Healthcare:
Health insurance that is funded or provided by the government.
Sick Role:
The pattern of expectations that define appropriate behavior for the sick and for those who take care of them.
Social Epidemiology:
The study of the causes and distribution of diseases.
Socialized Medicine:
When the government owns and runs the entire healthcare system.
Stereotype Interchangeability:
Stereotypes that don’t change and that get recycled for application to a new subordinate group.
Stigmatization:
The act of spoiling someone’s identity.
Stigmatization Of Illness:
They are labeled as different, discriminated against, and sometimes even shunned due to an illness or disability.
Underinsured:
People who spend at least ten-percent of their income on healthcare costs that are not covered by insurance.
Universal Healthcare:
A system that guarantees healthcare coverage for everyone.
