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  2. Social medicine - Wikipedia

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    Medical Education: Integrating social medicine topics into medical curricula to ensure that healthcare professionals are equipped to address the social aspects of health and illness. Interdisciplinary Collaboration : Working with professionals from diverse fields, such as anthropology, sociology, economics, and urban planning, to address ...

  3. Healthcare in Canada - Wikipedia

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    An April 2006 perspective on private healthcare in Canada in the New England Journal of Medicine included an interview with Michael McBane and Brian Day on the future of health care in Canada. [353] In August 2007, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) elected as president Brian Day , who owns the largest private hospital in Canada and who ...

  4. Social determinants of health - Wikipedia

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    While medical care and genetics play significant roles, a person’s health outcomes are also profoundly shaped by their social, economic, and environmental conditions. Understanding these determinants is imperative for devising effective strategies to address health disparities and promote equitable access to healthcare.

  5. In 2007, Gordon H. Guyatt et al. conducted a meta-analysis, or systematic review, of all studies that compared health outcomes for similar conditions in Canada and the U.S., in Open Medicine, an open-access peer-reviewed Canadian medical journal. They concluded, "Available studies suggest that health outcomes may be superior in patients cared ...

  6. Sociology of health and illness - Wikipedia

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    One of the founders of the sociology of health and illness is Talcott Parsons, an American sociologist, who analyzed the relationship between patients and their doctors in his book The Social System written in 1951. In his sick role theory, [9] he argued that people who were sick adopted a social role, not just a biological condition. Those who ...

  7. Social emergency medicine - Wikipedia

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    Social emergency medicine encompasses many environmental and behavioral factors that affect health. These include housing and food insecurity, [3] [4] the use and misuse of tobacco, drugs, and alcohol, [5] community and interpersonal violence, [6] the impact of firearms on public health, [7] human trafficking, [8] and communicable disease including HIV and Hepatitis C. [9] Proponents of social ...

  8. Medical sociology - Wikipedia

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    Medical sociology is the sociological analysis of health, Illness, differential access to medical resources, the social organization of medicine, Health Care Delivery, the production of medical knowledge, selection of methods, the study of actions and interactions of healthcare professionals, and the social or cultural (rather than clinical or bodily) effects of medical practice. [1]

  9. Preventive and social medicine - Wikipedia

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    Preventive and social medicine is a branch of medicine dealing with providing health services in areas of prevention, promotion and treatment of rehabilitative diseases. . Studies in preventive healthcare and social medicine are helpful in providing guided care, medicine in environmental health, offering scholarly services, formulating legal policy, consulting, and research in international