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sick role
a set of expectations intended to guide the behavior of people who are ill
social epidemiology
the branch of sociology that studies how social factors influence the distribution and spread of disease in a group
acute diseases
those with a fairly quick, and sometimes dramatic and incapacitating, onset from which a person either dies or recovers
chronic diseases
progress over a long period of time and often exist long before they are detected (cancer)
preventative medicine
changes in lifestyle or other steps that help avoid the occurrence of disease
curative/crisis medicine
treating people's illness after they become ill
medical-industrial complex
a coincidence of interests between physicians and other health-care providers and the industries producing health-care goods and services, with both parties profiting from the increased use of these commodities while the health-care consumer pays enormous costs for inadequate care
third-party medicine
the patient pays premiums into a fund and the doctor/hospital is paid from this fund for each treatment provided to the patient
medicare
government health insurance for those over sixty-five years of age
medicaid
a joint federal-state program to provide medical care for low-income people of any age
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