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| state of physical, mental, and social well being |
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| any activity intended to improve health |
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| an institutionalized system for the scientific diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illness |
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| estimate of the average lifetime of people born in a specific year |
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| the number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 live births in a given year. |
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| study of the causes and distribution of health, disease, and impairment throughout a population |
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| long term illnesses that are present at birth or develop later in life |
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| diseases that occur suddenly and that cause major impairment or death |
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| diseases that occur suddenly and that cause major impairment or death |
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| any substance, other than food and water, that alters the function of the body in some type of way |
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| study conducted by Abraham Flexner in order to develop a medical education model |
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| The Professionalization of Medicine |
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| After the Flexner report, medicine becomes more ”professionalized” via the following characteristics: |
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| Abstract, specialized knowledge |
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| knowledge gained from medical education and training |
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| physicians usually rely on their own judgment |
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| Although physicians are required to have a license and adhere to accreditation and regulatory medical boards they are basically independent. |
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| physicians usually have legitimate power and people tend to comply with their orders and directions |
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| are viewed as performing a service for society instead of their own self-interests |
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| Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) |
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| provide health prevention services |
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| system designed to contain medical via medical procedures, diagnostic tests, and other services that may be provided to patients |
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| Universal Health Care System |
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| a health care system in which all citizens receive medical services which are paid for from tax revenues. |
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| health care system in which the government owns the medical facilities and is the physicians’ employer |
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| Functionalist Perspective of Health and Medicine |
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| in order for a society to function as a stable system, people must remain healthy so that they can contribute to their society |
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| expectations of the norms and values for individuals who are sick as well as those who interact with them |
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| Conflict Perspective on Health and Medicine |
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| emphasizes the political, economic, and social forces that affect health and the healthcare delivery system. Focuses on the access of all people to get healthcare and how race, class, and gender inequalities affect one’s health. This perspective also focuses on the power relationships between physicians and other healthcare workers, the role of profit in the medical field, and the dominance of the medical model of healthcare |
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| the meanings that individuals (social actors) apply to their illness or disease and how such meanings impact people’s self-concept and relationships with others |
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