INTRODUCTION

Medical sociology is a very significant and functional area within the general field of Sociology. Sociology itself is an academic discipline that is concerned with the function, structure and roles of social institutions and social processes. It is also concerned with the social behaviour of groups. It logically follows to say that Medical Sociology is concerned with the social facets of health and illness, the social functions of health institutions and organization, as well as the relationship of systems of healthcare delivery to other social systems, and the social behaviour of health personnel and all those who are consumers of health.

Medical Sociology is a relatively new specialty in Sociology and behavioural sciences generally. Some scholars define it as a new specialty that is concerned with social as opposed to biological factors in the causation of diseases.

COURSE AIMS

The course aims at providing those social factors that are crucial to our understanding of social dimensions of health and ill-health.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The objective of studying medical sociology, is to enable you;

·        To understand the relationship between sociology and medical science and its application to health care in Nigeria.

·        To understand the meaning of health and illness especially as it relates to social structure;

·        To understand the socio-cultural aspect of medicine

·        To know the structure and dynamics of medical organizations as their processions;

·        To understand the evolution and development of the professionalization of medicine;

·        To appreciate the traditional and modern forms of health delivery systems in Nigeria, Africa, as well as their respective uses and social effects;

·        To know and appreciate the role of politics in health; and

·        To appreciate the hospital as a social system and the mental hospital as a total institution.

Nigeria People and Culture

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As far as the specific subject matter of analysis goes, it can be micro- or macroeconomic theory, public finance, urban economics, or what not.

Conventionally, mathematical economics is reserved to describe cases employing mathematical techniques beyond simple geometry, such as matrix algebra, differential and integral calculus, differential and difference equations, etc.

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