Health & Social Movements Flashcards
Who implemented the present medical care system in 1972
Tommy Douglas in Sask
Prevalence of diabetes
Reasons?
-Inactive/sedentary lifestyle
-Poor eating
-Poor stress management
-Genetics
Highest causes of death in Canada
- Cancer
- Heart disease
Social Exclusion
a process of excluding members of a group from normal interaction and sharing of benefits
Robert Putman
Reduction in bridging social capital
- (Americans were not voting, threat to democracy/reduction in political participation, how do we fix this?)
Medicalization
The expansion of medical framework in explaining/treating conditions previously thought to be normal or deviant
- A form of social control
- Increases the relevance and power of medical profession
ex; erectile dysfunction
3 Types of Medicalization
ONE
- when deviant behaviours are given medical designations and treated biomedically; when ‘badness becomes sickness’
- ex hyperactivity
TWO
- when natural, biological events are given illness labels; when “normal becomes sickness”
- ex PMS, homosexuality
THREE
- When diagnosis for a disease is expanded (to include more people)
Benefits of Medicalization
-Lead to greater social awareness
-Reduce stigma
-Lead to empathy for person with condition
-Ensures that person with condition receives help
Potential Negative Consequences of Medicalization
-Doctors become the sole expert of the condition
-Medical treatment is the only way to resolve problem
-Blurs boundaries between normal & abnormal
-Pressures people to seek treatment
-May be used to justify involuntary treatment (ex: schizophrenia)
Pharmaceuticalization
the process by which social, behavioral or bodily conditions are treated, or deemed to be in need of treatment/intervention with pharmaceuticals by doctors, patients, or both
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Organized efforts by a substantial number of people to change or to resist change in some major aspect(s) of society (comprised of non-elite members of society)
Collective Action
Action that takes place in groups and diverges from the social norms of the situation
Crowd Collective Action
VS
Mass Collective Action
Crowd Collective Action: face to face with other members of group
Mass Collective Action: when people aren’t physically together
Value Added Theory
-Planned collective action
Alternative Social Movements
aim for limited societal change; target narrow group of people
