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Soc Unit 2
Chapter 11
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| medicalization | the process by which programs or issues not traditionally seen as medical come to be framed as such like addictions |
| Doctors decline | rising healthcare, expensive, non traditional medicine, rise of tech, internet, declining cause of women in profession |
| Medicare | Americans over age 65 get health insurance |
| Medicaid | Poor people get health insurance |
| Morbidity | illness in a general sense- the absence of complete health |
| mortality | death |
| epigenetic | chemical regulation of gene activity that may be switched on or off in response to environmental influence |
| selection theory | relationship between lower income and higher income morbidity rate is false cause genetics affect |
| drift explanation | reverse causality exists, health causes social position |
| social determinants | social status position determines health |
| sick role | concept describing the social rights and obligations of a sick individual |
| Sick role right | not to perform normal social roles, not held accountable for condition |
| sick obligations | try to get well, seek competent help and comply with doctors orders |
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