Hinote, Brian P.

Social and Behavioral Science for Health Professionals - 2nd ed. - Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019. - 1 online resource (371 pages)

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Cover; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Brief Contents; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I Foundations of Social Science and Health; Chapter 1 Introduction to Health and the Sociological Imagination Learning Objectives; A Multidimensional Approach to Health and Health Care; The Sociological Imagination; Bringing the Sociological Imagination into Focus; Critically Analyzing Health and Health Care; The Paradox of American Health Care; Health Care as a Social Institution; Organization of the Book; Activity-Exercising the Sociological Imagination; Discussion Questions Chapter 2 The Shifting Landscape of Health and Medicine Present, and FutureLearning Objectives; Introduction; Medicine before Modernity; Premodern Thinking; Humoral Medicine; The Advent of Modernity; The Birth of Modern Medicine; The Rise of Modern Clinical Practice; Education for Medical and Allied Health Professions; The Business of Modern Health Care; A Shifting Landscape of Health and Disease; Disruptive Illness: Chronic Disease and Incalculable Risk; Changing Disease Profiles; The Consequences of Incalculability The End of Modern(ist) Health Care: Clinical Practice in the Chronic Illness EraConclusion; Discussion Questions; Chapter 3 The Logic and Methods of Empirical Research; Learning Objectives; The Statistical Imagination; What Is Science?; The Scientific Method; In Pursuit of Causality; Covariation; Eliminating Spuriousness; Time Order; Classic Experimental Design; Clinical Trials; Other Research Designs; Quasi-Experimental Methods; Correlational and Cross-Sectional Methods; Pre-experimental Methods; Qualitative Methods; Research Translation: From Findings to Practice Does the Study Add to Our Understanding?Who Is Being Studied?; Is the Research Design Appropriate?; Is Systematic Bias Avoided or Minimized?; Statistical Considerations; Research Ethics; Conclusion: Evidence-Based Medicine and the Statistical Imagination; Activity-Thinking Critically about Research; Discussion Questions; Part II Social Epidemiology and Determinants of Health; Chapter 4 Social Class and Health; Learning Objectives; The Social Determinants of Health; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Social Class as a Fundamental Cause of Health and Disease Neighborhood Disadvantage and the Role of Clinical PracticeConclusion; Activity-The Flint Water Crisis: The Many Dimensions of Class and Health; Discussion Questions; Chapter 5 A Matrix of Health Inequalities; Learning Objectives; Age; Gender; LGBTQ+; Race and Ethnicity; Culture; Conclusion: A Matrix of Inequalities; Activity-Historical Memory, Inherited Culture, and Distrust of Health Care: TheTuberculosis Outbreak in Marion, Alabama; Discussion Questions; Chapter 6 Health Behavior and Lifestyles; Learning Objectives; A Renewed Emphasis on Health Behavior; Explaining Health Behavior

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Social and Behavioral Science for Health Professionals examines various social and behavioral factors that affect health and illness, with a particular focus on how these phenomena inform clinical practice.

1538127857 9781538127858 RM 2,080.64

9781538127858 Ingram Content Group


Social medicine.
Health behavior.
Medical personnel.
Health behavior.
Medical personnel.
Social medicine.
Medical: General.


Electronic books.

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