Sociological aspects are becoming more and more relevant in medicine and healthcare. Whether in politics or academia, sociology plays an important role in how healthcare providers diagnose and administer medical interventions for people. A civilization must have healthy citizens to continue the consistent flow of societal functions. Stability is one of the key aspects of a progressing and healthful nation. Healthcare providers must keep a position of expertise on how to increase the number of healthy citizens in a society. In order to achieve this, the patient must respect the physician and vice versa. This relationship will allow a clean flow of knowledge from the advances of healthcare research all the way to the general populous. In society,
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People generally want to seem “normal” to the rest of the population. Physical injuries are common and aren’t seen as “weird”, but sociological and psychological problems may remove a person’s sane status as perceived by others. The misfortune with this ideology is that sociological and psychological problems can be just as detrimental as physical issues, if not worse. With physical injuries, there is a straight-line dogma: injury, treatment, recovery, aesthetic treatment (optional). Sociological and psychological problems do not have a concise treatment plan. There are two main concepts: the healthcare professional’s advice/treatment for the patient and how the patient reacts to the advice/treatment plan. The healthcare professional may have a tough time getting the advice across depending on the condition, and the patient may not completely understand how the advice will help him/her, resulting in the patient being in a total quandary. This entire issue is gaining more and more attention, so recently anti-depressants and other drugs are playing into the equation as …show more content…
Cultural conditions and myths/fables can cause mind-body connections that have a chance of producing physical results. This is a certain aspect of health which is not entirely customary or even acknowledged. The bio-psycho-social connection creates a web of undefined conditions which are yet to be researched. One example would lie in the cultural myth of Southeast Asia, where if one eats fish with milk, discolored spots will appear on the person’s skin. Regardless that this theory has been invalidated by current medical science, there have been multiple reports of discoloration of people’s skin in the Indian Subcontinent due to the consumption of fish and milk. The cultural aspect is causing people to psychologically contain this theory, ultimately resulting in a physical condition. In this case, the discoloration might have been from something else, such as mutations in the melanin, but other social and psychological states have been scientifically proven to create physical effects, such as biofeedback therapy and social pressure on athletes. Overall, sociology has a significant role in how healthcare professionals provide
People generally want to seem “normal” to the rest of the population. Physical injuries are common and aren’t seen as “weird”, but sociological and psychological problems may remove a person’s sane status as perceived by others. The misfortune with this ideology is that sociological and psychological problems can be just as detrimental as physical issues, if not worse. With physical injuries, there is a straight-line dogma: injury, treatment, recovery, aesthetic treatment (optional). Sociological and psychological problems do not have a concise treatment plan. There are two main concepts: the healthcare professional’s advice/treatment for the patient and how the patient reacts to the advice/treatment plan. The healthcare professional may have a tough time getting the advice across depending on the condition, and the patient may not completely understand how the advice will help him/her, resulting in the patient being in a total quandary. This entire issue is gaining more and more attention, so recently anti-depressants and other drugs are playing into the equation as …show more content…
Cultural conditions and myths/fables can cause mind-body connections that have a chance of producing physical results. This is a certain aspect of health which is not entirely customary or even acknowledged. The bio-psycho-social connection creates a web of undefined conditions which are yet to be researched. One example would lie in the cultural myth of Southeast Asia, where if one eats fish with milk, discolored spots will appear on the person’s skin. Regardless that this theory has been invalidated by current medical science, there have been multiple reports of discoloration of people’s skin in the Indian Subcontinent due to the consumption of fish and milk. The cultural aspect is causing people to psychologically contain this theory, ultimately resulting in a physical condition. In this case, the discoloration might have been from something else, such as mutations in the melanin, but other social and psychological states have been scientifically proven to create physical effects, such as biofeedback therapy and social pressure on athletes. Overall, sociology has a significant role in how healthcare professionals provide