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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Health Sciences |
| Mestrado Universitario en Asistencia e Investigación Sanitaria (plan 2012) |
 Subjects |
| Socioloxía da Saúde. a Discapacidade e a Dependencia |
| Contents |
| Identifying Data | 2016/17 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Socioloxía da Saúde. a Discapacidade e a Dependencia | Code | 653862221 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 2nd four-month period |
First | Obligatoria | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| LESSON 1. INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH, DISABILITY AND DEPENDENCE | The behavior of falling ill. The role of the patient. The response to disease. Social tags. |
| LESSON 2. HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND INSTITUTIONS | Health professions and institutions. Health and human values. Ethics and health issues: euthanasia, stem cells, bioethics. |
| LESSON 3. HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE | Health and quality of life. Health and new forms of disease: anorexia, bulimia and vigorexia. Drug addiction and its forms. |
| LESSON 4. SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS ON HEALTH | Critical revision of the methods and techniques of social research of health, disability and dependency. Health indicators. Public opinion and health. |
| LESSON 5. THE MEASUREMENT OF HEALTH, DISABILITY, AND DEPENDENCE | Health, disability and dependency in figures: regional, national, European and international profiles. Social perception of health disability and dependency (attitudes, opinions, judgments and prejudices). |
| LESSON 6. FAMILY ENVIRONMENT OF DISABILITY AND DEPENDENCE | The family environment. School and employment social integration. Gender, disability and dependence. |
| LESSON 7. SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT OF DISABILITY AND DEPENDENCE | The social and institutional environment with special reference to networks of support. Dependency and social exclusion. |
| LESSON 8. DISABILITY AND DEPENDENCE POLICY | Policy and politics (Galician, Spanish and EU) around disability and dependency. Problems of specific groups: women and children abused, long-term unemployed, pensioners and the elderly. |
| LESSON 9. PUBLIC POLICY | Sociological perspective on Dependency Law with special reference to Galicia. Information society, disability and dependence. |
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