Medical sociology, the sociological analysis of social interactions, organizations, and systems related to health, illness, and medicine
health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
social stigma, a negative label characterized by one or more personal traits that form a stereotype about the individual
medical-industrial complex, the multi-billion-dollar enterprise consisting of doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, insurance companies, drug manufacturers, and hospital supply and equipment companies
chronic diseases, long-lasting health problems that normally cannot be cured and only controlled, such as heart disease, cancer, and strokes
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), a system in which individuals purchase shares of food in advance of production from local farmers)
sick role, the rights and responsibilities of those ill
deprofessionalism, a decline in the power of a profession,
Hispanic mortality paradox, the conditions by which Hispanics live longer despite lower income and health care access
employment-based health insurance, a system in which an employer pays all or part of the health insurance premiums for the employee, the U.S. system is paid primarily by employers
Medicaid, a government program established in 1965 funding healthcare for qualified persons living below the poverty level and/or who have disabilities, and Medicare, a government program established in 1965 funding healthcare for the elderly, the disabled, and people receiving long-term treatment with dialysis. Medicaid
Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) is part of Medicaid and provides health insurance for low-income children.
socialized medicine, medical and hospital care funded for all citizens by the government
mental illness (HP), abnormal thoughts, behaviors, emotions, or actions that are a threat to the individual or society,
herd immunity, a population’s ability to resist disease as a result of a high percentage of its members being immune.
physician-assisted suicide, a process in which a doctor provides a terminally ill patient with the means to end their life at the time of the patient’s choosing.
medical tourism, the practice of traveling to another country to seek healthcare.