This book explores how sociology provides the means to answer complex questions about health and illness, such as why health inequalities exist. The book is divided into 3 sections. The first section (chapters 1-5) provides an overview of sociological perspectives on health and how we can scient...
Understanding the Sociology of Health 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书 图书描述 "Praise for the "First Edition" The book is a great introduction it gives the students a sound basis, gets them thinking and gives them the confidence to move on' -" Sarah Nettleton, University of York " This book ...
(2007). Contributions of the sociology of mental health for understanding the social antecedents, social regulation, and social distribution of emotion. In Avison, W.R. & Mc Leod, JD. (Eds), Mental, Health, Social and Mirror. New York : Springer Sciences and Business Media....
Health record Health disparities Healthcare disparities Meaningful use 1. Introduction In the U.S., an on-going transition from paper to electronic health records (Plovnick, 2010) has resulted in a mandate for ‘meaningful use,’ i.e. the use of health information technology for improving the...
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More than 20 years after it was first identified, the anomalous condition, multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS), remains immersed in controversy, with a c... T Phillips - 《Sociology of Health & Illness》 被引量: 15发表: 2010年 Contested Concepts, Similar Practices: The Quest for the Global...
(2012). `Health care and immigration: understanding the connections', Ethnic and Racial Studies, 35(1): 1-2.Fernandez-Kelly, Patricia, and Alejandro Portes, ed. 2012. Health Care and Immigration: Understanding the Connections. Special Themed Issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies 35(1)....
Post-trauma support in the workplace: the current status and practice of critical incident stress management (CISM) and psychological debriefing (PD) withi... Employers' duties of care under both common and statute law include the need to take reasonable care of the health and safety of the ...
Women in prisons are known to suffer with mental health difficulties and many experience challenges prior to incarceration. Diversion programmes are initiatives designed to divert people with pre-existing mental illness from the criminal justice system into mental health services. The variability of effect...
This paper investigates toxic algal blooms (TABs) and their management as an example of a complex emerging contaminant (EC) problem through the lens of interconnected social, technical, ecological systems (SETS). We use mixed methods including analysis o