SOC 568

Sociology of Health and Health Care

Examination of the role of social and cultural factors in health, research on the use of health services, the health professions, health care organizations, and major issues in public policy and health care; the structure of medical science and knowledge, medicalization of social problems, the structure of care-giving and care-receiving, and health care systems including comparative analysis of health care systems in a global society.

Units: 3.0