Long term conditions Flashcards
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Chronic illness
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Medical interventions can only control, not cure
Varies day to day - exacerbations and remissions
eg. Rheumatoid arthritis
2
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Long term condition
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Can’t be cured but controlled by medication, treatment and therapies
3
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Sociological approach to chronic illness
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Impact of chronic illness on social interaction and role performance
4
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Functional theory of illness experience
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Relationship between society. and the individual
Doesn’t acknowledge role of the body
5
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Interpretive theory of illness experience
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How individuals make sense of their illness and rebuild their identity
6
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Sick role
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Medically sanctioned form of deviant behaviour - not responsible for their condition and excused from normal duties
7
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Work of chronic illness
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- Illness work - diagnosis and management of symptoms
- Everyday life work - coping and normalisation
- Emotional work - protect others well being, downplay symptoms
- Biographical work - loss of self, disruption of taken for granted behaviours
- Identity work - how people see them and how they see themselves
