Aims and Learning Outcomes
Learn about
- Concepts of health and illness
- Lay and professional understandings of health, illness and disease
- Concepts of primary and secondary deviance; stigma, disability and handicap
- Social and structural iatrogenesis
- Role of medicine in society
- Social patterns and experiences of illness
- Social, cultural and psychological factors
- Social Determinants of health inequalities
- Economic, psychosocial, educational, nutritional, environmental determinants
- Measures of deprivation
- Determinants of inequality – poverty, race, gender
- Impact of social and political forces
- Access to health care
- Impact of social policy
- Sociology of health and illness
- Hospitals as social institutions
- The development of Professions
- Approaches to health care self-care, family care, community care, self-help groups
- Decision-making in health behaviour in response to illness and treatments
- Relationships in childhood – parent child and peer group.