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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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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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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Unit 7 Assessment 2 Sociological Perspectives In this assessment I will be identifying three different social groups and explain how their health may differ from the general population; I will also be using sociological perspectives to discuss different patterns and trends of health and illness. Gender- “Women live longer but suffer from more health problems in their lifetime‚ and many are specific to the female gender” Agnes Miles‚ Women‚ Health and Medicine. According to the stats‚ women
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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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P2: Explain different sociological approaches to health and ill health There are many different sociological approaches towards health and ill health and they can be used in many different scenarios‚ such as the scenario of Aziz and Tamsela. Aziz and Tamsela have 4 young children and Tamsela’s parents are also living with them. Their house only has 3 bedrooms so will be cramped and over crowed since there is eight people living in a tiny house. Their house is in a poverty-stricken and discouraging
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A sociological perspective to health and illness enables health problems to be viewed as social issues. This essay will describe the "sociological imagination" (Mills 1959 cited in Germov‚ 21) and outline the interrelated historical‚ cultural‚ structural and critical factors of which it is comprised. The journal articles‚ "Researching Aboriginal health: experience from a study of urban young people ’ s health and well being" (Holmes‚ Stewart‚ Garrow‚ Anderson and Thorpe‚ 2002) and "Indigenous women
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