1. FACILITATOR: PROF. MASALAKULAKULANGWA
HUBERT KAIRUKI MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY DEPARMENT: BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE TOPIC: MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
FACILITATOR: PROF. MASALAKULAKULANGWA
PRESENTERS: BELINDA MSAKI
NANCY WILBERT
AARON RUTAYUGA
CENTRUDA MKINGA
NASOOR MNYAA

2. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION OBJECTIVES DEFINITION OF TERMS MAIN PRESENTATION
SUMMARY
CONCLUSION
RECOMMENDATION
REFERENCES

3. INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
Medicine in its historical setting was more of sciences and typically scientific. As day and years went on medicine was discovered to be missing the social side and process to craft the relationship started.
Today there is something social in medicine and as well as something medical in sociology. The society we

4. Cont…
live in is sick, but the same society which is sick, ill and diseased can be happy, can interact and also can have good experience
The concept of work in society is one of the central elements in medical sociology.

5. WHAT IS MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY?
Medical sociology is the sociological analysis of medical organization and institutions; the production of knowledge and selections of methods, the actions and interactions of healthcare professionals, and the social or cultural (rather than clinical or bodily) effects of medical practice.

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Medical sociology is concerned with the relationship between social factors and health, and with the application of sociological theory and research techniques to questions related to health and the health care systems

7. MEDICAL SOCIOLOGISTS ARE CONCERNED WITH…
Social causes and patterns of health and disease
Social behavior of health care personnel and their patients
Social functions of health organizations and institutions
Relationship of health care delivery systems to other social systems

8. OBJECTIVES The concept of medical sociology
At the end of this presentation we should all understand the following;
The concept of medical sociology
How medical sociology relates with health and illness
The concept of sick role by Talcott Parsons
The role of society in medical sociology
How culture, religion and education relates with medical sociology.

9. DEFINITION OF TERMS
Sociology-is a social science that uses various methods of empirical investigations and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about social order, disorder and change.
Health-is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being

10. Cont.… Illness-unhealthy condition of body or mind.
Society-an aggregate of people living together on a more or less ordered community.
Religion-an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence.

11. MAIN PRESENTATION

12. MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY IN Health AND ILLNESS
This examine the interaction between society and health
The objective is to see how social life impact mobility and mortality rate

13. Cont.…
While the sociology of medicine is limited to patients –practitioners relationship and the role of health professional in society.
It covers sociological pathology, reasons for seeking particular type of medical aid and patient’s compliance or noncompliance with medical regimes.

14. THE SICK ROLE
Sick role is a term used in medical sociology regarding sickness and the rights and obligations of the affected. It is a concept created by American sociologist Talcott Parsons in

15. Concept
Parsons was a functionalist sociologist, who argued that being sick means that the sufferer enters a role of 'sanctioned deviance'. This is because, from a functionalist perspective, a sick individual is not a productive member of society. Therefore this deviance needs to be policed, which is the role of the medical profession. Genuinely, Parsons argued that the best way to understand illness sociologically is to view it as a form of deviance-which disturbs the social function of the society.

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The general idea is that the individual who has fallen ill is not only physically sick, but now adheres to the specifically patterned social role of being sick. ‘Being Sick’ is not simply a ‘state of fact’ or ‘condition’, it contains within itself customary rights and obligations based on the social norms that surround it. The theory outlined two rights of a sick person and two obligations:

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Rights:
The sick person must exempted from normal social roles, or duties (ED)
The sick person is not responsible for their condition, this means that all of us fall sick but it is not our own making, no one can plan to be sick.

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Obligations:
The sick person should try to get well, that means must use right medical systems, or good hospitals, and also good doctors, and or good nurses.
The sick person should seek technically competent help and cooperate with the medical professional, using medication, finishing the prescribed dose, and doing aerobic exercises

21. SOCIETY AND MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
The society we live in entirely affects our health and wellbeing, either by being the causative of our illnesses or by taking care of us while ill. But family is the basic, primary, biological and cultural unit of the society hence family plays the major role in maintaining the health an illness of the society at large.

22. ROLES OF FAMILY IN HEALTH AND ILLNESS
It is the first care giver to the sick
It is the main determiner of the patients conditions whether good or bad

23. Cont.…
To take the role of the ill person when he/she cannot perform them
It will offer remedies and advice to the sick

26. THE SECRET OF HEALTH LIES IN THE HOMES OF PEOPLE
Florence Nightingale

27. CULTURE ROLE IN MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
Culture is defined as a learned behavior which has been acquired socially. Thus culture differs from one society to another. The culture of a society affects the health of that particular society since many practices of a society are based on their culture.

28. CULTURAL IMPACTS ON HEALTH AND ILLNESS
Our culture affects our societies in many aspects including;
Personal hygiene
Nutrition
Immunization
Seeking early medical care
Family planning
Child bearing

29. RELIGION AND MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
Religion has to do with those socially shared and organized ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that concern ultimate meanings about the existence of the supernatural or beyond

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In the religious behaviors human beings fashion a social world of meaning and rules that govern how and what they think, feel, and act.

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Religion may be the leading factor to our wellbeing, or destructive since different religions have different views on how people react toward illnesses and the process of medication.

34. MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY AND EDUCATION
Education is one aspect of the many sided process of socialization by which people acquired behaviors essential for effective participation in society. It entails an explicit process in which some individuals assume the status of teacher and others the status of students and carry out their associated roles.

35. SUMMARY
This topic shows a clear connection between social aspects of life in the medical filled that is how a family, religion, education and culture inclusive of traditional ways of life can contribute into both negative and positive consequences in provision of medical services.

36. CONCLUSION
The society and its components have an important influence on the communities’ people live in, as regards to peoples’ health and wellbeing. So are cultural practices, family ways of living and knowledge, religious views, availability of social needs to community and environmental factors.

37. RECOMMENDATIONS
As medical professionals, it’s very essential to understand medical sociology because it enables us to know societal behavior thus giving a more meaningful and effective approach to the clients. It also widens self-awareness on wellbeing manners from the basic unit of life that is family to the national level so as to improve the health sector.

38. REFERENCES
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Hughes.m, et al.(2005). Sociology: The core.(7th edition). (Boston:Mc Graw Hill Companies)
Hanson. Barbara (1997). Advances in medical sociology: Social assumptions, Medical categories.(London: Jai Pres. INC)
Gelles.R, et al. (1999). Sociology, An introduction (6th edition). Boston:Mc Graw Hill Companies)
Fergusons. (2005). Mapping the social Landscape: Readings in Sociology (4th edition). (Boston:Mc Graw Hill Companies)
Robinsons (1994). The story of Medicine: The development of the Arts and Sciences of Medicine from the stone age to Modern times.(New York: The New Home Library)

40. MERCI BEAUCOUP