By Geoffrey Harding
Recognizing that social technological know-how can give a contribution in the direction of pharmaceutical provider supply, this article discusses theories and ideas of scientific sociology that could be of use to pharmacists, from the Nuffield file on pharmacy, to sociological views at the adventure of illness.
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Mortality rates clearly cannot measure improvement, stability or deterioration in health. 4. Mortality rates are based on a binary division of dead or alive and therefore they are not sensitive to degrees of healthiness of those still alive. 5. e. with an increase in chronic and degenerative diseases and the overall decrease in infectious diseases, mortality rates are less useful because, although they are falling, morbidity may at the same time be increasing. 6. Morbidity rates and mortality rates have sometimes been found to be at odds for certain social groups, for example, women live longer than men yet have higher rates of morbidity.
For example, it has been found that patients who suffered from severe facial pain did not seek professional treatment (Marbach and Lipton, 1978). 1 Incidence of reported illness over a two-week and twelve-month period (n=1217) Percentage of adults experiencing illness 2 weeks 12 months Tiredness Common cold Sleeping disturbance Arthritis/rheumatism Nausea/sickness Diarrhoea Influenza/virus Hay fever 35 15 15 12 5 57 66 26 21 4 19 30 10 3 2 22 Adapted from British Market Research Bureau Ltd (1987).
The changing demographic structure of our society, and the fact that increasing numbers of people are living beyond 65 years of age has not been matched by a corresponding increase in the funding for the provision of care to the community. This has led to a growing dependency on the family and friends for the care of elderly relatives (Allen, 1985). 4 LAY HEALTH BELIEFS It has been suggested that there must be a relationship between health beliefs and behaviour. Attempts to understand this relationship can be divided into socio-psychological approaches and sociological approaches.