Chap 19 key terms sociology

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acute disease	diseases that occur suddenly and cause a dramatic decline in daily functioning or even death.
chronic diseases	diseases that develop and exist over a long period of time, sometime beginning at birth.
direct-free system	a system of health care in which people pay for their health care at the time of receiving treatment.
health	a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being.
health care	any activity that intends to improve health.
health maintenance organization HMO	a system of providing comprehensive health care with an emphasis on prevention in exchange for payment of a regular fee
infant mortality	the death of a child within a year of its birth.
managed care	any system of health care that closely monitors and controls decisions by health care providers about treatment and patient services in an attempt to contain costs.
medicalization	the process by which nonmedical problems come to be defined and treated as an illness
medicine	an institutionalized system providing for the prevention, diagnosis, and treament of illness and the improvement of health
mortality rate	the rate of death among a population
sick role	a pattern of behavior and attitudes defined as appropriate for people who are ill.
social epidemiology	the study of how health and disease are distributed among the members of a society.

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