Original scientific paper

Sociological Approaches to Health and Desease

Mirko ŠTIFANIĆ

Abstract

In this work four sociological approaches to health and
disease are analysed by means of relevant foreign literature:
a) functional, b) marxist, c) phenomenological, and d)
radical. The authors conclude that none of these approaches
separately give the solution for the research of complex
relations to health and disease of an individual and social
groups, i. e. society. The socio-medical approaches
described help to understand the society itself and make it
possible to define health policy in concrete conditions, which
directly influences health and social results. The picture of
health of a population, obtained by socio-medical researche
helps the affirmation of these cultural behavioural patterns
that promote health, and the recognition of behavioural
patterns that endanger health. It can be useful in carrying
out the International Health Organization programme
“Health for All by the Year 2000” and preserving the citizens’
mental, social and reproductive health in a complex
condition of transition. It can help doctors and other medical
professionals find answers to more complex socio/medical,
medically/ethical and medically/legal answers in public
health in the 21st century.

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Hrčak ID:

20398

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/20398

Publication date:

31.12.1998.

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