Sociology Final Chapter 14

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a state of complete, physical, mental, and social well being.

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health

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any activity intended to improve health.

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healthcare

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an institutionalized system for the scientific diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illness.

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medicine

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an estimate of the average lifetime of people born in a specific year.

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life expectancy

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the number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age per 1000 live births in a given year

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infant mortality rate

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the study of the causes and distribution of health, disease, and impairment throughout a population

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social epidemiology

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illnesses that are long term or lifelong and that develop gradually or are present from birth.

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chronic diseas

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illnesses that strike suddenly and cause dramatic incapacitation and sometimes death.

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acute diseases

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any substance-other than food and water-that, when taken into the body, alters its function in some way.

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drug

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compaines that provide, for a set monthly fee, total care with an emphasis on prevention to avoid costly treatment later.

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health maintence organizations (HMOs)

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any system of cost containment that closely monitors and controls health care providers' decisions about medical procedures, diagnostic tests, and other services that shouold be provided to patients.

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managed care

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a health care system in which all citizens receive medical services paid for by tax revenues.

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universal health care system

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a health care system in which the government owns the medical care facilities and emplys the physicians.

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socialized medicine

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an approach to health care that focuses on prevention of illness and disease and is aimed at treating the whole person-body and mind-rather than just the part or parts in which the symptons occur

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holistic medicine

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the set of patterned expectations that defines the norms and values appropriate for individuals who are sick and for those who interact with them.

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sick role

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local physicians, local hospitals, and global health related industries such as insurance companies and pharmaceutical and medical supply companies that deliver health care today.

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medical-industrial complex

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the process whereby nonmedical problems become defined and treated as illnesses or disorders

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medicalization

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the process whereby a problem ceases to be defined as an illness or a disorder

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demedicalization

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a reduced ability to perform tasks one would normally do at a given stage of life and that may result in stigmatization or discrimination against the person with disabilities

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disability