Chapter 11- Health And Society

Front 1

medicalization

Back 1

process by which problems/issues not traditionally seen as medical come to be framed as such

Front 2

sick role

Back 2

social rights/obligations of a sick individual

-staying home from work/school
-ppl assume you're trying to get better

Front 3

morbidity

Back 3

illness in a general sense

Front 4

mortality

Back 4

death

Front 5

disease

Back 5

medically diagnosed pathology

Front 6

illness

Back 6

person's subjective sense of not feeling well

Front 7

sickness

Back 7

social acceptance of a person as ill

Front 8

compression of morbidity

Back 8

idea that suffering from disease is limited to the end of life (old age)

Front 9

women outlive men by

Back 9

6-7 yrs

Front 10

poverty and health

Back 10

-lack of access to preventative health care measures
-infant mortality

*lower life expectancy

Front 11

unemployment and health

Back 11

high stress, anxiety = heart disease

Front 12

hunger

Back 12

surge in unemployment = rise in hunger

*ppl realized hunger as an issue in 60's

Front 13

smoking

Back 13

chief avoidable cause of death in US in 80's

today...stricter regulation

Front 14

HIV/AIDS

Back 14

**access to contraception

action- pressure on gov't to fund research
culture- religion has moral opposition to contraception

Front 15

status elevation of doctors

Back 15

since 20's- rise of AMA (lobbying power)

Front 16

corporatization

Back 16

health care treated like big biz

-for profit hospitals
-dr's increasingly entrepreneurial
-specialized clinics (psych, women's health)

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US health care

Back 17

spend hella $ on it, but not that healthy as a nation

-no universal care