SOCI 200 - Medical Sociology

CR: 3
Non-medical factors like social and economic inequality, socioeconomic position, and other sociodemographic characteristics influence a person’s health and well-being and risks for infectious and non-communicable diseases, injuries, and death. Topics include prevention from both a public health life style perspective, increasing medicalization of human conditions, over-diagnosis and over-treatment, and end of life medical interventions. Aanalysis of how these non-medical factors are related to profit and not-for-profit health care delivery systems in U.S. and other countries. V.5