Ethnicity and patterns of Health and Illness Age standardised ’not good’ health rates: by ethnic group and sex‚ April 2001‚ England & Wales Pakistani and Bangladeshi men and women in England and Wales reported the highest rates of ’not good’ health in 2001. Pakistanis had age-standardised rates of ’not good’ health of 13 per cent (men) and 17 per cent (women). The age-standardised rates for Bangladeshis were 14 per cent (men) and 15 per cent (women). These rates‚ which take account of the difference
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Unit 7 Assessment 2 Sociological Perspectives In this assessment I will be identifying three different social groups and explain how their health may differ from the general population; I will also be using sociological perspectives to discuss different patterns and trends of health and illness. Gender- “Women live longer but suffer from more health problems in their lifetime‚ and many are specific to the female gender” Agnes Miles‚ Women‚ Health and Medicine. According to the stats‚ women
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Understand sociological approaches to health and social care – Patterns and trends in health and illness among different social groupings P3 – Explain patterns and trends in health and illness among different social groupings In this assignment I will write a report which will explain the patterns and trends in health and illness among different social groups. Gender Women’s life expectancy is higher than a man’s life expectancy. Women typically live five years longer than men. Another reason why
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the introduction of social policy ideologies emphasis was put on civil and political right especially in countries like South Africa and America where there was wide discriminations on the basis of race and class. In the current contexts Social policy has underwent various transformations in terms of the subject matter‚ internationalization‚ approaches of conceptualisation and cooperation with other disciplines in the world with most countries taking it as a way of tackling social problems. The most
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Explaining patterns and trends in health and illness among different social groupings. Introduction There are many ways to measure patterns of ill health; these include mortality‚ morbidity‚ health events‚ disease incidence‚ disease prevalence and health surveillance. These are; Morbidity Rates is how many individuals suffer from the disease at a given time. Mortality Rates is how many individuals die from suffering from the disease and health events individuals being aware of health issues such
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Use different sociology perspectives to discuss patterns and trends of health and illness in two different social groups. (M2). The black report was published in 1980‚ and it included different facts about how health can be improved from all different backgrounds in different social groupings. There is still a co-relation between social class and infant mortality rates‚ life expectancy and inequalities in the use of medical services. This was such an important piece of research. This report looked
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P2: Explain different sociological approaches to health and ill health There are many different sociological approaches towards health and ill health and they can be used in many different scenarios‚ such as the scenario of Aziz and Tamsela. Aziz and Tamsela have 4 young children and Tamsela’s parents are also living with them. Their house only has 3 bedrooms so will be cramped and over crowed since there is eight people living in a tiny house. Their house is in a poverty-stricken and discouraging
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Explain different sociological approaches to health and ill health There are many sociological approaches that explain health and ill health. In this assignment I will be focusing on Marxism‚ feminism‚ interactionaist and functionalism perspectives. The Marxist perspective believe that the bourgeoisie (middle class) exploit the proletariat (working class) as we live in a capitalist system and that if we lived in an communist society that would be our ideal society because there would be equality
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In this part of my report‚ I will be applying the different sociological perspectives to the patterns and trends of health and illness in two different social groups. When applying the sociological perspectives‚ I will be examining the trends in health and illness within different social groups. Social class As stated above in P3‚ as part of my research‚ I found out that high social class males at the age of 65 years had an increased life expectancy between 2007 and 2011 of 20.3 years. https://www
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A sociological perspective to health and illness enables health problems to be viewed as social issues. This essay will describe the "sociological imagination" (Mills 1959 cited in Germov‚ 21) and outline the interrelated historical‚ cultural‚ structural and critical factors of which it is comprised. The journal articles‚ "Researching Aboriginal health: experience from a study of urban young people ’ s health and well being" (Holmes‚ Stewart‚ Garrow‚ Anderson and Thorpe‚ 2002) and "Indigenous women
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