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Dec 12, 2024
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ARCHIVED 2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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SOCI 343 - Health, Illness and Care4.00 credit hours
This course covers the theoretical orientations that guide sociological and anthropological insights into health, illness, treatment seeking and the organization of medical care and the current state of empirical knowledge in the field. Topics include the social origins of illness; lay beliefs about disease; sociodemographic variations in health care utilization; the profession of medicine; the structure of the American health care system and cross-national disparities in health and longevity. This course challenges our assumptions about the social foundations of health disparities, the sovereignty of medical providers and the administration of health care.
Prerequisite(s): SOCI 100 or HTSC 230 .
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Global Understanding.
iCon(s): Examining Health.
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