Health Sociology
Topics Covered in This Course:
In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
A brief introduction to the sociology of health, healing, and illness.
The development of scientific medicine.
Social epidemiology.
Society, disease, and illness.
In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
Social stress.
Health behavior.
Experiencing illness and disability.
In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
Physicians and the profession of medicine.
Medical education and the socialization of physicians.
Nurses, mid-level health care practitioners, and allied health workers.
In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
Complementary and alternative medicine.
The physician-patient relationship: background and models.
Professional and ethical obligations of physicians in the physician-patient relationship.
In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
The health care system of the united states.
Health care delivery.
The social implications of health care technology.
Comparative health care systems.