Merit 2 – Use different sociological perspectives to discuss patterns and trends of health and illness in two different social groups. Distinction 1 - Evaluate different sociological explanations for patterns and trends of health and illness in two different social groups. There are many different factors that can increase your chance of becoming ill and dying. The different factors are social class‚ gender‚ age and ethnicity. The different social groups I will look at are social class and gender
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Trends of Health and Illness in Different Social Groups Age- Most people in retirement are health and fit. They make valued contributions to society through paid work‚ volunteer work and by being a good citizen to the society and to their families. However there are higher levels of illness in people over 75. This is because as people grow older their bodies may be unable to function as well as it did‚ therefore they are unlikely to receive as much exercise and fresh air‚ also they may be unable
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Understanding patterns and trends in health and illness among different social groupings Measuring health Statistics regarding health and illness levels are generated by three main groups. These groups are: * Government: These provide a wide range of current statistics; The Office of National Statistics provides this. They have a hard and electrical copy of such things as GP appointments from surgeries‚ infant mortality rates‚ hospital admissions‚ suicide rates and many other statistics. They
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Patterns and trends regarding health and illness vary within different social groupings. For example‚ age and social class. Most people at retirement age are healthy and fit making valued contributions to society through paid work‚ volunteer work and by being a good citizen to society. However there are significant higher levels of illness in people over 75 due to their bodies being unable to function as well as it did as they age‚ therefore they are unlikely to receive as much exercise and fresh
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Evalute The Different Sociological Perspectives On The Types of Family And Households In Britain. Evaluate Their Functions And Roles. To What Extent Do They Take Into Account The Diversity of Family Types In Britain? In this essay I will be looking at the different sociological theories as they relate to the family household‚ functions and roles. The socialists include The Functionalist ‚ The Marxist‚ The Feminists‚ The New Rights and The Post Modernisms. There is an array of different family types
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Understanding patterns and trends in health and illness P3‚ M2 & (D1) for UNIT 7 Aims & Objectives To understand how we measure health and ill health (M2) Begin to understand and research different patterns and trends in health and ill health in various social groupings (P3) Health Statistics Health statistics look at the affects of health & health outcomes‚ such as:- Can you remember what these terms mean? Infant mortality rates Overall mortality rates Morbidity rates Disease
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statistics The office of National Statistics providing a large range of health and care issues‚ Publications includes Social Trends and‚ for more detailed information on health issues‚ Health Statistical Quarterly. The publication provide a wide range of statistics on birth rates and death rates; infant mortality rate and suicide rates as well as appointments GP’s surgeries and hospital admissions‚ and these are looked into as social class‚ gender‚ age and geographical location. Government statistics
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In this assignment I am going to write a report explaining the patterns and trends of health and illness in three social groups: gender‚ ethnicity and social class. I am also going to explain the pattern and trends of health and illness which looks at measurement of health‚ morbidity rates‚ mortality rates‚ disease incidence‚ disease prevalence and health surveillance. Measurements of health Health is generally measured in negative terms‚ such as the level of disease and the number of deaths within
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Sociological Perspectives on Health and Illness How can we define health? Imagine a continuum with health on one end and death on the other. In the preamble to its 1946 constitution‚ the World Health Organization defined health as a “state of complete physical‚ mental‚ and social well-being‚ and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity” (Leavell and Clark 1965:14). In this definition‚ the “healthy” end of the continuum represents an ideal rather than a precise condition. Along the continuum
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Use different sociology perspectives to discuss patterns and trends of health and illness in two different social groups. (M2). The black report was published in 1980‚ and it included different facts about how health can be improved from all different backgrounds in different social groupings. There is still a co-relation between social class and infant mortality rates‚ life expectancy and inequalities in the use of medical services. This was such an important piece of research. This report looked
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