Opened.cuny.edu

The Social Construction of Health

WEBThe Social Construction of Health. If sociology is the systematic study of human behavior in society, medical sociology is the systematic study of how humans …

Actived: 4 days ago

URL: https://opened.cuny.edu/courseware/lesson/195/overview

Health in the United States

WEBHealth in the United States is a complex and often contradictory issue. One the one hand, as one of the wealthiest nations, the United States fares well in health comparisons with …

Category: Health Go Health

Introduction to Sociology 2e, Health and Medicine, Health in the …

WEBThe second most common mental disorders in the United States are mood disorders; roughly 10 percent of U.S. adults are likely to be affected yearly, while 21 percent are …

Category: Health Go Health

The Social Construction of Health

WEBConrad and Barker show how medical knowledge is socially constructed; that is, it can both reflect and reproduce inequalities in gender, class, race, and ethnicity.

Category: Medical Go Health

Theoretical Perspectives on Health and Medicine

WEBEach of the three major theoretical perspectives approaches the topics of health, illness, and medicine differently. You may prefer just one of the theories that follow, or you may …

Category: Medicine Go Health

Introduction to Sociology 2e, Health and Medicine, The Social

WEBIf sociology is the systematic study of human behavior in society, medical sociology is the systematic study of how humans manage issues of health and illness, disease and …

Category: Medical Go Health

Introduction to Sociology 2e, Health and Medicine, Global Health

WEBSocial epidemiology is the study of the causes and distribution of diseases. From a global perspective, the health issues of high-income nations tend toward diseases like cancer …

Category: Cancer Go Health

Psychology, Stress, Lifestyle, and Health, Regulation of Stress

WEBRegulation of Stress. As we learned in the previous section, stress —especially if it is chronic—takes a toll on our bodies and can have enormously negative health …

Category: Health Go Health

Introduction to Sociology 2e, Health and Medicine, Comparative …

WEBUnder a socialized medicine system, the government owns and runs the system. It employs the doctors, nurses, and other staff, and it owns and runs the hospitals (Klein 2009). The …

Category: Medicine Go Health

Introduction to Sociology 2e, Health and Medicine, Comparative …

WEBIn Canada, healthcare is publicly funded and is administered by the separate provincial and territorial governments. However, the care itself comes from private providers. This is …

Category: Health Go Health

Psychology, Stress, Lifestyle, and Health, Stressors OpenEd CUNY

WEBSome stressors involve traumatic events or situations in which a person is exposed to actual or threatened death or serious injury. Stressors in this category include exposure …

Category: Health Go Health

Psychology, Stress, Lifestyle, and Health, Stress and Illness

WEBIn this section, we will discuss stress and illness. As stress researcher Robert Sapolsky (1998) describes, stress-related disease emerges, predominantly, out of the fact that we …

Category: Health Go Health

Psychology, Stress, Lifestyle, and Health, What Is Stress

WEBA person at this stress level is colloquially at the top of his game, meaning he feels fully energized, focused, and can work with minimal effort and maximum efficiency. But when …

Category: Health Go Health

Psychology, Stress, Lifestyle, and Health, Introduction

WEBExams are a stressful, but unavoidable, element of college life. (credit “left”: modification of work by Travis K. Mendoza; credit “center”: modification of work by …

Category: Health Go Health

Psychology, Stress, Lifestyle, and Health, Regulation of Stress

WEBCONTROL AND STRESS. The desire and ability to predict events, make decisions, and affect outcomes—that is, to enact control in our lives—is a basic tenet of human …

Category: Health Go Health

Psychology, Stress, Lifestyle, and Health, Stressors

WEBPotential stressors do not always involve major life events. Daily hassles —the minor irritations and annoyances that are part of our everyday lives (e.g., rush hour traffic, lost …

Category: Health Go Health

Psychology, Stress, Lifestyle, and Health, What Is Stress

WEBThe scientific study of how stress and other psychological factors impact health falls within the realm of health psychology, a subfield of psychology devoted to understanding the …

Category: Health Go Health

Introduction to Sociology 2e, Health and Medicine, Theoretical

WEBTheorists using the conflict perspective suggest that issues with the healthcare system, as with most other social problems, are rooted in capitalist society.

Category: Health Go Health

Mental Health Treatment: Past and Present

WEBAccording to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), in 2008, 13.4% of adults received treatment for a mental health issue (NIMH, n.d.-b). …

Category: Health Go Health