When biomedical knowledge and technology create the capacity for humans to avoid disease and circumvent early death, sociological factors become more, not less important for population health. The transformation of disease causation from cruel fate, accident, and bad luck to circumstances that are under some degree of human control facilitates a powerful social shaping of disease and death. Whe...

The doctor-patient relationship (DPR) is one of the most important subjects in medical sociology and health policy. Due to mutual understanding, undistorted DPRs not only result in satisfaction of both doctors and patients, but also help to reduce financial burdens for patients and the health care system. The purpose of this research was to identify a DPR based on the qualitative paradigm model...

Current research and policy on maternal and child health-care in Eritrea and Ethiopia focus primarily on female education and employment, while little attention is placed on women’s decision-making autonomy. However, the role of women’s decision-making in reproductive health cannot be overemphasized. In this paper, different dimensions of women’s decision-making autonomy and their relationship ...

One key concept in medical sociology/anthropology for the analysis of approaches to health and illness is the medical model. However, this medical model is not only applied at the analytical level, i.e. as a sociological tool, but it also appeals to health service providers at a practical level as a model of working practice. This paper challenges the uncritical use of the medical model by prac...

the concept of individualism in the field of sociology was introduced by the empirical scheme of one's position in society. the growing importance of the attention to this pattern affected by social changes has been rapid and rough. cultural and social processes of modernization and modern age always create new conditions and stimulus leading to changes and verities in methods of individualizat...

as european and american countries became industrialized, general sociology was gradually replaced with industrial sociology because the main issues were issues related to the industrial society. in the latter half of the 19th century and the early 20th century there was no clear idea about industrial sociology and its duties. after the second world war, a more exact definition of the field eme...