Professional or Public Health? Sociology in Health and Medicine (Book).

A Sociology Study of Effective Factors in Public Health

The healthiness of a society depends on variety of complicated factors that have genetical and environmental aspects and in an extensive spectrum finds social aspect. This research is going to analyze effective social factors on public healthiness and research method survey is base on measurement. It made in the framework of theories of Adler, Dall, Cokerham, Parsans, Mayner and Dayner. Statist...

Sociology, medicine and the construction of health-related sociology.

Starting from a paper about closing the gap between sociology and medicine in Brazil and the United Kingdom that was published in 1971, a historical update was made with the aim of reflecting on the new shapes of health-related teaching and research within the social and human sciences, in these two countries. The methodology was qualitative and the study was developed using secondary data. The...

Public Health and Medicine

Public health and medicine approach the challenge of health and health care from distinct, complementary perspectives (Table 1). In medicine, the ocus is on the individual patient, within the context of amily and community. In public health, the focus is on he health of populations, with the expression of illness ound in the lives of individuals. Medicine draws mainly n the biological sciences,...

Text Book of Public Health

Developing public sociology through health impact assessment.

The renewed interest in 'public sociology' has sparked debate and discussion about forms of sociological work and their relationship to the State and civil society. Medical sociologists are accustomed to engaging with a range of publics and audiences inside and outside universities and are in a position to make an informed contribution to this debate. This paper describes how some of the debate...