Theories of Health Sociology Assignment
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Health Sociology
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1Concept and determinants of Health Sociology.....................................................................1Theories of Health Sociology.................................................................................................2Difference between sociological theories and medical model...............................................3CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
INTRODUCTIONHealth sociology analyses the interaction between society and health. This can be relatedto social institutions like work, family, school and religion as well as the causes of disease andillness for seeking particular type of care and compliance. It really needs a global approach forexamination because it affects societal factors all over the world (Siqueira, Hollanda and Motta,2017). Diseases are compared and examined on the basis of economics, religion, medicine andculture which is limited to every region. Therefore, this report focuses on the concept ofsociology, its determinants, sociological theories and the way these differ from medical models.MAIN BODYConcept and determinants of Health SociologyHealth is an entire mental, physical and social wellbeing as well as just the absence ofinfirmity and disease. It is not just defined in the terms of mental, anatomical and physiologicalattributes. General sociology can be described as empirical and special methodological system ofits own. It revolves around social structure, relationships or community. It generally examinesthe relationship among social groups or societal processes (Edy and Risley-Baird, 2016).Functioning of society depends heavily on healthy people that control illness. Sociologists calledthose persons as 'the sick role' whose behaviour towards society can be monitored as ill. A sickperson is:1. One that is not responsible towards society.2. Not responsible for normal duties3. He/she is supposed to get help in order to be out of the role (Yurtseven, 2015).There are various social determinants in which people work, live, born and set widerforces and systems in order to shape conditions of daily life. Most important factors that shapethe person's social life are employment and working conditions. It affects families and health ofworkers with an objective of illustrating how much knowledge can be translated into healthpolicy measures. Fair access to employment improves the health of families and workers as wellas strengthen up their dimensions. Another factor includes exclusion of multidimensionalprocesses that are motivated by four main dimensions like-economic, political, social andcultural. Sociologists examined some processes which resulted in the exclusion of significantgroups from involving completely in some communities (Pruitt, 2018). These activities are run at1
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