Social Science and Health

By Fayroz kamal
 Cultural factors in health and Disease
1. concept of aetiology and cure •
2. Environmental Sanitation •
3. Food habits •
4. Mother and child health •
5. Personal Hygiene •
6. Sex and Mariiage •
 The Community
The chracteristics of a community are: •

1. It is a contaguous geographic area •

2. people co-operate to satisfy their basic •
needs
3. they share or have a common organizations •
(markets, schools, hospitals,…).
 Structure of Society
.1. Caste •

2. Income. •

3. Occupation. •
 Social Mobility
Closed- class society •
Open- class society •

Social mobility and reforms and resistance. •

 Social class
People in a community are differentiated by : •
Personal characteristics, economic, cultural, •
and educational.
In societies, investigators differentiate them •
into social class according to their economic
status, level of education, way of life, attitudes
and expectations, and exposure to different
types of and degree of stress.
 Occupation and social class
Occupation is a major determinant of : •
1. Economic rewards. •
2. Extent of authority •
3. Extent of Obligations •
4. Degree of status •
5. Values and life style. •
 Occupational classification and its
limitations
Occupational classification: •
1. Professional occupation •
2. Intermediate Occupation •
3.Onnmanual skilled occupation •
4. Partly skilled occupation •
5. Unskilied occupation •
 Limitations of occupational
classification
1. Heterogeneous Groping •

2. Occupational mobility •

3. Women •
 Other measure of social
diiferentiations
1. Education •

2. Purchasing power •

3. Religion •

4. Income •
5. Rural and urban
 Factors involved in social class
differentiation and health and disease
1.P physical environment •

2. Differences in services provided •

3. Material resources •

4. Genetic endowment •
5 Educational status •
6. Attitude to disease. •