Key Terms Chapter 19: Health and Medicine
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| Words (or words that have the same definition) | The definition is case sensitive | (Optional) Image to display with the definition [Not displayed in Glossary, only in pop-up on pages] | (Optional) Caption for Image | (Optional) External or Internal Link | (Optional) Source for Definition |
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| Word(s) | Definition | Image | Caption | Link | Source |
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| Anxiety Disorders | feelings of worry and fearfulness that last for months at a time | ||||
| Commodification | the changing of something not generally thought of as a commodity into something that can be bought and sold in a marketplace | ||||
| Contested Illnesses | illnesses that are questioned or considered questionable by some medical professionals | ||||
| Demedicalization | the social process that normalizes “sick” behavior | ||||
| Disability | a reduction in one’s ability to perform everyday tasks; the World Health Organization notes that this is a social limitation | ||||
| Epidemiology | the study of the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases | ||||
| Impairment | the physical limitations a less-able person faces | ||||
| Individual Mandate | a government rule that requires everyone to have insurance coverage or they will have to pay a penalty | ||||
| Legitimation | the act of a physician certifying that an illness is genuine | ||||
| Medical Sociology | the systematic study of how humans manage issues of health and illness, disease and disorders, and healthcare for both the sick and the healthy | ||||
| Medicalization | the process by which aspects of life that were considered bad or deviant are redefined as sickness and needing medical attention to remedy | ||||
| Medicalization of Deviance | the process that changes “bad” behavior into “sick” behavior | ||||
| Mood Disorders | long-term, debilitating illnesses like depression and bipolar disorder | ||||
| Morbidity | the incidence of disease | ||||
| Mortality | the number of deaths in a given time or place | ||||
| Personality Disorders | disorders that cause people to behave in ways that are seen as abnormal to society but seem normal to them | ||||
| Private Healthcare | health insurance that a person buys from a private company; private healthcare can either be employer-sponsored or direct-purchase | ||||
| Public Healthcare | health insurance that is funded or provided by the government | ||||
| Sick Role | the pattern of expectations that define appropriate behavior for the sick and for those who take care of them | ||||
| Social Epidemiology | the study of the causes and distribution of diseases | ||||
| Socialized Medicine | when the government owns and runs the entire healthcare system | ||||
| Stereotype Interchangeability | stereotypes that don’t change and that get recycled for application to a new subordinate group | ||||
| Stigmatization | the act of spoiling someone's identity; they are labeled as different, discriminated against, and sometimes even shunned due to an illness or disability | ||||
| Stigmatization of Illness | illnesses that are discriminated against and whose sufferers are looked down upon or even shunned by society | ||||
| Underinsured | people who spend at least 10 percent of their income on healthcare costs that are not covered by insurance | ||||
| Universal Healthcare | a system that guarantees healthcare coverage for everyone |