The UK public broadly supports efforts to reduce the environmental impact of health care, but some fear that environmental arguments could be used to justify cost-cutting or service reductions, shows ...

In the world of medicine, treating the body and treating the person can be two distinctly different things. The medical sociology program in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of ...

The Nepali doctor Rishav Koirala is, by his own admission, an unusual Nepali. He’s a fan of Jim Morrison and the Doors, loves European philosophy and practices psychiatry in a country where medical ...

Mental health and mental illness are on a continuum but are also different. Source: Anna Tarazevich/Pexels Who is mentally ill? Who is not? Why draw a distinction? In recent decades, there has been a ...

Mental health, mental illness, and mental performance are distinct concepts that impact the way we think, feel, and behave. They may be correlated to each other, but not always. Understanding and ...

The field of Sociology of Health examines the ways in which social structures, interactions, and cultural contexts shape health outcomes and the distribution of disease across populations. It ...