Sociological Perspectives on Social Determinants of Health

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SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
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Introduction:
Sociology can be described as the scientific study of the society that mainly incorporates
the concern of the patterns of the social relationships, culture as well as social interaction.
Researchers have described it as the social science that is mainly seen to involve different types
of methods like that of the empirical investigation as well as critical analysis in order to gain
knowledge on the topics of social order, acceptance an even include changes or social evolution
(Eikemo et al., 2017). Over the years, sociological factors are also seen to affect health of human
beings in various ways and a growing number of evidence tends portray an association of
sociology with that of health. This assignment will mainly portray different sociological
perspectives in describing the social determinants of health and accordingly shed more light on
the topics.
Sociology and the Role of Perspectives:
Sociology can be defined as the subject that deals with the human social relationships as
well as other institutions. The subject matter is quite diverse and it may range from family to that
of state, crime to that of religion, from the divisions of the social classes and the races to that of
the shared beliefs of the common culture. It also includes important factors ranging from social
stabilities to that of radical changes in the whole societies. It helps in emphasizing the careful
gathering as well as the analysis of the evidences about the social lives (Castarieda et al., 2015).
This helps in development as well as enrichment of an individual’s understanding of the key
social procedures.
The different approaches that individuals adopt for understanding the different aspects of
the society are called the perspectives. The sociology in the field of health and illness mainly

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incorporates the interaction between the society as well as health. This subject in this domain
mainly helps in understanding the ways about how social life is seen to affect the morbidity as
well as the mortality and how their rates affect the society (Mirowski, 2017). This subject is also
seen to look at illness as well as health in relation to the social institutions such as family, school,
work as well religion. It also helps in covering the factors that cause diseases and illness,
understanding the reasons for seeking particular types of care as well as patient compliance and
non-compliance.
Biomedical model of health and social determinants of health:
The biological model of care mainly focuses on the b physician as well as the biological
determinant of health. It is mainly a medical model of care that is practiced by doctors as well as
health professionals. This models mainly providers the approach that remains associated with
diagnosis, cure as well as treatment. The professional following this model mainly emphasizes
on the diagnosis and the treatment for individuals and this model works separately from any sort
of lifestyle and living conditions. This model mainly believes on returning the physical health of
the person to his pre illness (Short & Mollborn, 2015). This model does not take the reasons for
the illness at the centre of the biomedical model of care. The two important aspects are diagnosis
and interventions.
Diagnosis is the identification of the disease or the illness and intervention is the action
taken for the improvement of health. However, they fail to look at the sociological or the
psychological factors that also have the capability to affect the health of the patients. The social
determinants of health also called the SDH are the conditions, in which the people of the society
are born, live, grow, work and age. It also try to look over the wider set of the forces and the