- Title
- Imagining health problems as social issues
- Creator
- Germov, John
- Relation
- Second Opinion: An Introduction to Health Sociology p. 5-22
- Relation
- http://www.oup.com.au/titles/higher_ed/health_sciences/9780195520149
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- This chapter introduces you to the sociological perspective and how it can be used to understand a wide range of health issues. Health sociology focuses on the social patterns of health and illness - such as the different health statuses between women and men, the poor and the wealthy, or the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations - and seeks social rather than biological or physical explanations.
- Description
- 5th
- Subject
- new public health; social class; lifestyle choices; social construction
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1066991
- Identifier
- uon:18318
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780195520149
- Language
- eng
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