Sociology › Section S · Health and medicine › Topic S.3
Health in the United States
The United States spends more on healthcare than any other country, yet how long Americans live depends strongly on their income, race and gender. This topic applies social epidemiology to the US and introduces medicalization, mental health and disability.
In this topic
- A rich country with wide gaps
- Health by socioeconomic status
- Health by race and ethnicity
- Health by gender
- Medicalization
- Mental health
- Disability and the social model
- Worked example: reading the maternal mortality gap
- Worked example: is rising autism diagnosis medicalization?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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