Sociological and biomedical model Flashcards
What is sociology?
The study of society
Gives a second opinion about ideas regarding health and illness
Key features of sociological approach
- social distribution and production of health
- social construction of health
- social organisations of health
Sociological imagination factors
Historical - influence of past
Structural - influence of social organisation
Cultural - influence of culture
Critical - asking why
Social structures
Social class
Gender
Culture
Age
Victim Blaming
seeing individuals as primarily responsible for their health
The sick role
- sick are encouraged to seek expert help to return to their social roles
- expectations dictate how an individual is meant to act and be treated
Discourse
A discourse comprises the idea that contribute to making meaning about a topic, the ways in which we speak about it, as well as the types of action that are enabled by such thoughts and language.
Biomedicine
Health is the ‘absence of disease’; Body is a machine made up of interacting parts; Separation of mind and body; Doctrine of specific aetiology; Curative focus (biological / surgical).
Latrogenesis
any kind of unwanted outcomes or harm caused by medical treatment
clinical - side effects
social - reliance of people on medicine
cultural - dominance of medicine
Medicalisation
a process by which nonmedical problems become defined and treated as medical problems
define: theory
important tool used to explore , explain and predict
Principals of social model of health - AREAS
A - Address the broader determinates of health
R - Reduce social inequalities
E - Empower individuals and the community
A - Access to healthcare
S - (Inter) Sectorial Colabortation
What is health promotion
Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over the determinants of health and thereby improve their health
What are the two aspects of the biomedical approach?
Diagnosis: identification through tests
Intervention: action taken to improve health
