behavioral medicine

Examples of behavioral medicine in the following topics:

• The Experience of Illness

  • Sometimes the term is used broadly to include injuries, disabilities, syndromes, infections, symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of structure and function.
  • Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field of medicine concerned with the development and integration of psychosocial, behavioral, and biomedical knowledge relevant to health and illness.
  • Evolutionary medicine calls this set of responses "sickness behavior. "
  • However, the rise of scientific medicine in the past two centuries has altered or replaced many historic health practices.
  • Mental illness is a broad category of illnesses that may include affective or emotional instability, behavioral dysregulation, and/or cognitive dysfunction or impairment.

• Alternatives to Traditional Health Care

  • Alternative medicine is any practice claiming to heal "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine".
  • Alternative medicine methods are diverse in their foundations and methodologies.
  • Alternative medicine is frequently grouped with complementary medicine or integrative medicine, which, in general, refers to the same interventions when used in conjunction with mainstream techniques, under the umbrella term complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM.
  • Integrative medicine is the combination of the practices and methods of alternative/complementary medicine with conventional medicine.
  • It may include preventive medicine and patient-centered medicine.

• Race and Ethnicity

  • Many explanations for such differences have been argued, including socioeconomic factors, lifestyle behaviors, social environment, and access to preventive health-care services among other environmental differences.
  • Some diseases may also be influenced by genes that differ in frequency between groups, such as sickle-cell anemia, which occurs overwhelmingly among some black populations, although the significance in clinical medicine of race categories as a proxy for exact genotypes of individuals has been questioned.
  • Race-based medicine is the term for medicines that are targeted at specific ethnic clusters that are shown to have a propensity for a certain disorder.

• The Evolution of Health Care and Medicine

  • Herbal medicine is an aspect of folk medicine that involves the use of gathered plant parts to make teas, poultices, or powders that purportedly effect cures.
  • Western medicine approaches health care from two angles.
  • The term alternative medicine is misleading, as these treatments have not been proven to be an effective alternative to regulated conventional medicine, but alternative medicine proponents point out that the same can be said (not proven, though often demonstrated to be probable) of Western Medicine.
  • People who choose alternative or western medicines may think they are choosing a safe, effective medicine, while they may only be getting quack remedies.
  • Neither alternative or western medicines are properly regulated.

• Social Epidemiology and Health

  • It is the cornerstone of public health, and informs policy decisions and evidence-based medicine by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive medicine.
  • Overall, Durkheim treated suicide as a social fact, explaining variations in its rate on a macro level, considering society-scale phenomena such as a lack of connections between people (group attachment) and a lack of regulations of behavior, rather than the feelings and motivations of individuals.

• Preventing Illness

  • Preventive medicine, or preventive care, refers to measures taken to prevent diseases, rather than curing them or treating their symptoms.
  • Preventive medicine, or preventive care, refers to measures taken to prevent diseases, rather than curing them or treating their symptoms.
  • Simple examples of preventive medicine include hand washing, breastfeeding, and immunizations.
  • Since preventive medicine deals with healthy individuals or populations, the costs and potential harms from interventions need even more careful examination than in treatment.
  • Explain the purpose of preventive medicine and how insurance companies can influence the types of preventive medicine chosen

• Women in Medicine

  • Historically and in many parts of the world, women's participation in the profession of medicine has been significantly restricted.
  • Historically and in many parts of the world, women's participation in medicine (as physicians, for instance) has been significantly restricted, although women's informal practice of medicine in the role of caregivers and in the allied health professions has been widespread.
  • Women's participation in medical professions was limited by law and practice during the decades while medicine was professionalizing.
  • The practice of medicine remains disproportionately male overall.
  • Analyze the role women play in the medical field and how gender parity affects women's choices when it comes to medicine

• Teachers' Expectations

  • For example, studies have found that when students are split into ability-based groups, the students in the higher-ability groups are more likely to demonstrate positive learning behaviors and higher achievement.
  • Math and science are often perceived as "masculine" subjects because they lead to success in "masculine" fields, such as medicine and engineering.
  • For example, studies have found that when students are split into ability-based groups, the students in the higher-ability groups are more likely to demonstrate positive learning behaviors and higher achievement.
  • Math and science are often perceived as "masculine" subjects because they lead to success in "masculine" fields, such as medicine and engineering.

• Bachelor's Degree Occupations

  • Sociology majors are particularly well-suited for this type of research as the ultimate goal of empirical sociological research is to predict human behavior.
  • Some additional direct applications of sociology include concept and product testing (which will put to good use training in research methods), the evaluating of global market opportunities (which will draw upon understandings of various cultures), long-range planning and forecasting (which draws on both statistics and futurist perspectives), marketing and advertising (which applies consumer studies directly), and human resource management (which relies on studies of organizational behavior).
  • Sociology majors can carry the sociological imagination into medical practice, offering sociological insights while practicing medicine.

• Introduction

  • Collective behavior, a third form of action, takes place when norms are absent or unclear, or when they contradict each other.
  • Scholars have devoted far less attention to collective behavior than they have to either conformity or deviance.
  • These diverse actions fall within the area sociologists call collective behavior.
  • 1) collective behavior involves limited and short-lived social interaction while groups tend to remain together longer
  • While there is a degree of debate over what should be included under the label of "collective behavior" among sociologists today, often included are additional behaviors like: rumors, riots, trends, and fads.