The Trend and Prospect of Medical Sociology: Its Concepts and the Interface with Medical History [PDF]
Medical sociology has a long history, and it has been institutionalized and developed since the 1940s. This paper is about the history, trends, and prospects of medical sociology from the perspective of concepts as well as its interface with medical ...
Jae-Hyung KIM, Hyang A LEE
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Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Medical Sociology: A Co-Word Analysis [PDF]
Background: Medical sociology is concerned with the relationship between social factors and health, and with the application of sociological theory and research techniques to questions related to health and the health care system.
Azam Rohani, Fatemeh Makkizadeh
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Explaining the health system in a practical way – the use of a simulation game in medical sociology teaching [PDF]
Objective: A simulation game is a valuable method for conveying teaching content in a practical way. The aim was to design a teaching module for medical sociology on the subject of “The German health care system” which would convey the contents and ...
Götz, Katja
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Practical training in medical sociology “Analysis of social environments of living quarters”. A field experiment during the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]
Background: In the summer semester 2020, a new format was introduced at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg for first-year medical students in the subject of medical sociology with a neighborhood-related social environment analysis.Didactic ...
Swart, Enno +10 more
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Sociology in Medical Undergraduate Education: A Survey in Greece
The integration of sociology into medical education is essential for cultivating a nuanced understanding of the complex interplay between social determinants and health outcomes.
Pelagia Soultatou +3 more
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Evaluating the Continued Integration of Genetics into Medical Sociology [PDF]
Jason M Fletcher
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ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH LIFESTYLES: STRUCTURAL AND INTERSECTIONAL ASPECTS OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS IN MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY [PDF]
Purpose and Methods: The paper traces the effects of the environment and other structural factors on individual health and illness, as analysed theoretically by Medical Sociology.
N. Georgieva-Stankova
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Implementation of person-centredness under structural constraints: a case of HPV vaccination [PDF]
Person-centredness is claimed to be one of the aims of healthcare, placing the person at the centre of healthcare (services). However, individual responsibility is expected and stressed in the implementation with limited structural support.
Kadi Lubi +5 more
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‘Health paradox’ and former Soviet Union immigrants: towards an integrated theoretical framework
This study examines the critical mechanisms explaining the health outcomes of such understudied social group as immigrants from the former Soviet Union (FSU), including Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, among other countries.
Timmer A.
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Balkan syndrome 20 years after NATO aggression [PDF]
Debates on whether or not depleted uranium (DU) causes cancer and other diseases is a hot topic in the public discourse and quite controversial in the scholarly research literature.
Rokvić Vanja I. +2 more
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