TY - CHAP
T1 - Imagining health problems as social issues
AU - Germov, John
N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This chapter introduces you to the sociological perspective and how it can be used to understand a wide range of health issues. Health sociology focuses on the social patterns of health and illness—such as the different health statuses between women and men, the poor and the wealthy, or the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations—and seeks social rather than biological or psychological explanations. It provides a second opinion to the conventional medical view of illness derived from biological and psychological explanations,by exploring the social origins of health and illness—the living and working conditions that fundamentally shape why some groups of people get sicker and die sooner than others.
AB - This chapter introduces you to the sociological perspective and how it can be used to understand a wide range of health issues. Health sociology focuses on the social patterns of health and illness—such as the different health statuses between women and men, the poor and the wealthy, or the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations—and seeks social rather than biological or psychological explanations. It provides a second opinion to the conventional medical view of illness derived from biological and psychological explanations,by exploring the social origins of health and illness—the living and working conditions that fundamentally shape why some groups of people get sicker and die sooner than others.
KW - Agency
KW - Biological determinism
KW - Biomedicine/ biomedical model
KW - Cartesian dualism
KW - Epidemiology/social epidemiology
KW - Eugenics
KW - Lifestyle choices/factors
KW - New public health
KW - Public health
KW - Social construction
KW - Social Darwinism
KW - Social determinants of health (SDOH)
KW - Social gradient of health
KW - Social institutions
KW - Social model of health
KW - Social structure
KW - Sociological imagination
KW - State
KW - Structure–agency debate
KW - Victim-blaming
UR - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/second-opinion-9780190306489?cc=au&lang=en&#
M3 - Chapter in textbook/reference book
SN - 9780190306489
SP - 2
EP - 23
BT - Second opinion
A2 - Germov, John
PB - Oxford University Press, USA
CY - South Melbourne, Victoria
ER -