7. Health and Health Care
Chapter Learning Objectives
- Explain how socially constructed ideas affect health.
- Describe the advantage of understanding disparities related to social characteristics (race, gender, etc.).
- Explain why people with mental illness or substance abuse disorders are less likely to get medical care and support.
- Relate the challenges of meeting basic needs like sleep, exercise, and good diet to family health.
- Describe the difference between a health care system and health insurance.
- Examine how family structure, geography and income level overlap affect health care access.
- Analyze the role of capitalism in the opioid crisis.
- Apply theoretical concepts related to health care to one’s own observations and experiences.
