Experience in health I

7 important questions on Experience in health I

What allows for a greater acceptance of the sick role by the patient? (health professional: 4 - patient: 3)

Health professional:
- be technically competent
- be neutral, objective, disinterested
- it must be the independent and self-regulated
- you can access private data/body
patient:
- should seek competent technical support/assistence/help
- medical excuse
- will to recover

What is the paradox in health experience?

While Parson's analysis supports the sociological perspective that disease is socially constructed, and is not just a biological fact, it gives control to a group (health professionals) whose legitimacy is based on a claim to biological knowledge

Wha are social factors that explain why people don't go to the docter but self-medicate? (8)

- social class and self-perception
- need to continue working
- culture
- frequency and familiarity of symptoms
- interruption of activities
- existence of treatments
- impact on family
- capital
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What are the levels of medicalization? (3)

- conceptual: problems are defined medically
- institutional: organizations adopt a medical approach to dealing with a problem
- patient-professional: language, problem definition

What are the phases of medicalization? (4)

1. Definition of a problem as an undesirable deviation
2. It appears in a medical journal
3. Legitimates the need to do something about it
4. Institutionalizes (ICD portfolio services)

What are characteristics of medicalisation? (4)

- how and who defines the problem as a health problem
- degrees in medicalisation (100% birth, less in internet or shopping addiction)
- expands and contracts (post traumatic disorders, ADHD)
- de-medicalisation (masturbation, homosexuality)

In what ways is medicalization an opportunity? (3)

- access to medical and technological advances
- extends sick role (reduce guilt, responsibility)
- inclusion and equity, stigma

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