SOCL 470 - Health, Illness, and Health Care Systems

Institution:

Milligan College

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Description:

This course uses the sociological perspective to analyze illness and health, and to examine medical and health care systems. Topics include social and behavioral influences on illness, health-care funding issues, historical and contemporary issues in nurse-physician relationships, patients' rights issues, and health issues concerning specific groups such as rural people, minority group members, children and teenagers, the poor, the homeless, and women. Offered fall term alternate years.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.milligan.edu

Phone Number:

(423) 461-8700

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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