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Soc of Health & ill

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TermDefinition
Sick Roles: The set of expectations about how a sick person should behave and be treated.
Medicalization: The process by which human conditions are defined and treated as medical problems.
Obamacare: A 2010 U.S. law expanding healthcare access and regulating the health insurance industry (Affordable Care Act).
The healthcare system: The organized network of institutions, professionals, and resources delivering healthcare services.
Global healthcare models: Different ways countries organize and deliver healthcare, such as single-payer or private insurance models.
Tressie McMillan Cottom: Scholar who studies inequality, particularly in education, healthcare, and body politics.
Nandi Edmonds: Scholar focusing on racism and inequality in medical care.
Melissa Harris-Perry: Political scientist studying race, gender, and politics, including health inequality.
Susan Sontag: Wrote on how metaphors and social attitudes shape illness experiences (e.g., cancer, AIDS).
Eliot Freidson: Studied how medicine and the medical profession maintain authority and social control.
Emile Durkheim: Emile Durkheim: One of the founders of sociology, known for studying social facts like suicide and religion.
Talcott Parsons: Developed the concept of the “sick role” in medical sociology.
W.E.B. Du Bois: Early sociologist who studied racial disparities in health and mortality.
Social Determinants of Health: Social Determinants of Health: Conditions in the environments where people are born, live, work, and age that affect health.
Social vs Physical Environments: Social environment refers to social interactions and community life; physical environment refers to natural and built surroundings.
Socio-Ecological Model: A framework recognizing that individual behavior is influenced by multiple layers of influence (personal, interpersonal, community, societal).
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