The article provides insights on the urgent need for transformative responses in health and social care services due to challenges such as aging populations, chronic illnesses, infrastructure underinvestment, and workforce shortages. It presents papers that examine different aspects of these transformations,...
Blaxter, 2004:3, once said, “The meaning of health is neither simple nor unchanging”. The biomedical perspective on health earlier focused on the body’s ability to function, seeing health as a state of normal function that could be disrupted from time to time by disease. According to ...
Open and inclusive communication is key to managing menstrual health Priyanka Dubey M. Sivakami Correspondence20 Nov 2024Nature Human Behaviour Volume: 8, P: 2077-2078 Why we should care about trans people and menstruation Many trans people menstruate, yet they are often ignored in discourses aroun...
socialist mode of production. A serious examination of untouchability, sub-castes and sub-sub-castes that regulate the kernel of the caste system as well as the racialized castes in India were not studied or referenced in detail. This article adds to that void a theoretical understanding...
Digital health: A sociomaterial approach Marent, Benjamin;Henwood, Flis 37-53 The costs of care: An ethnography of care work in residential homes for older people Johnson, Eleanor K. 54-69 Experiences and meaning of loneliness beyond age and group identity Malli, Melina Aikaterini;Ryan...
In general, it is often a challenge to discuss the nexus between social science and health. Why medical sociology? What does sociology have to do with medicine or health? This chapter aims to answer these questions. It starts with the meaning of sociology and its links to health studies—a...
And apparently, I’m not alone. The intrigue-filled assassination has drawnthe ire of Americansfuming at a health insurance industry that prioritizes profits over people’s lives. Social media reactions have ranged from dark, sarcastic humor to outright cheers, compelling UnitedHealthcare toturn off...
This chapter aims to answer these questions. It starts with the meaning of sociology and its links to health studies—a definition and brief history of medical sociology and topic description of the discipline. All health problems are conceived as social problems, which are the core focus of soc...
Introduction to Sociology: ÒChapter 19: Health and MedicineÓ Chapter 19 offers a review of health and medicine. It introduces the term medical sociology as well as the difference between the cultural meaning of illness, the social construction of illness, and the social construction of medical...
a. human behavior is highly complex and has many causes Scientific sociology ___ a. focuses on the meaning people attach to behavior. b. seeks to bring about desirable social change. c. favors qualitative data. d. favors quantitative data. d. favors...