Women and Health Care: A Comparison of Theories

1975 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fee
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Alternative Structures ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Unpaid Labor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Care System

There are three distinct approaches to the analysis of women's position in society, and thus of women's relation to the health care system. Liberal feminists seek equal opportunity “within the system,” demand equal opportunity and employment for women in health care, and are critical of the patronizing attitudes of physicians. Radical feminists reject “the system” as one based on the oppression of women and seek to build alternative structures to better fill their needs. They see the division between man and woman as the primary contradiction in society and patriarchy as its fundamental institution. They have initiated self-help groups and women's clinics to extend the base of health care controlled by women in their own interests. Marxist-feminists see the particular oppression of women as generated by contradictions within the development of capitalism. Women's unpaid labor at home and underpaid labor in the work force both serve the interests of the owners of capital. The health care system serves these same interests; it maintains and perpetuates the social class structure while becoming increasingly alienated from the health needs of the majority of the population.

Self-initiation and self-help: Promises and pitfalls

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 544-546
Author(s):  
BARBARA STARFIELD
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
School Nurse ◽  
Demonstration Project ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Care System

Self-help is in vogue. Stimulated at least partly by the purported inadequacies of our health care system, it promises better results if only people would take responsibility for their own destinies. The Lewises and their colleagues (p. 499), in their customary fashion, have added an innovative twist to the idea. Why not start the process in childhood? In their article they describe a demonstration project in which children enrolled in an elementary school could initiate their own care from a school nurse. The nurse was trained to involve the children in the decisions required to cope with their problems. If

A marriage of opposites: Self-help and the health care system.

2001 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Riessman ◽  
Erik C. Banks
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Care System

THE MEASURE OF A HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 98 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-444
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Care System

A health care system which neglects the poor and disenfranchised impoverishes the social order of which we are constituted. In a real (and not just hortatory) sense, a health care system is no better than the least well-served of its members.

scholarly journals Ireland's unequal health care system: How did we let this happen?

2014 ◽  
pp. 32-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela V. Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
Welfare History ◽  
Care System

Distinct and measurable health inequalities have been shown to persist in Ireland and these relate closely to the health system. The purpose of this research is to examine the previously taken for granted assumptions that exist in relation to Ireland’s health and welfare system so as to attempt to understand why it is that a deeply unequal health care system is tolerated. Specifically, this research considers the place of the social contract within the contemporary neoliberal order where it arguably has been replaced by a market contract. Furthermore, this study looks at the concept of solidarity in Ireland’s health and welfare systems. In order to do this it is necessary to adopt a historical perspective and to examine the context in which an unequal system of health care has emerged and has become established and normalised in Ireland. The intention is to interrogate evidence within Ireland’s health and welfare history ...

scholarly journals THE SOCIAL INSTITUTION OF MEDICINE. PART II

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M Reshetnikov
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Family Education ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
Institute Of Medicine ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care System

On the basis of the analysis of process of becoming (institutionalization) of social institute as a phenomenon the classical concept of five basic social institutes (family, education, religion, economic and political institutes) is broadened. The society in the course of its historical development forms new spectrum of needs hence the necessity in both reconsidering changes of functional tasks, limits, normative value and status role systems of social institutes in function and recognizing existence of new social institutes. At the modern stage, considering actual functional requirements of society, the social institute of medicine is a new social institute. The article considers process of transformation of medicine into independent social institute at the turn of XX-XXI centuries. At that it is noted that evolutionary process of institutionalization of medicine requires a new in-depth comprehension accounting actual social transforming processes in the health care system. Simultaneously, another comprehension is required related to altering situation in health care system itself, transformation of views of patient on process of rendering of medical care and expectations from health care system, alterations of concepts of patient-physician relationships, reorganization of models of interaction of a single individual with the state, society, social institutes and groups.

scholarly journals Pandemic COVID-19 and measures to limit its spreading in Bulgaria: aftermaths and conclusions

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-90
Author(s):  
Anna I. Mantarova
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
It Effectiveness ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Care System

Since the beginning of 2020, the world has suddenly found itself in a unique situation - the spreading of the coronavirus has caused serious consequences in all areas and at all levels of society and required a radical change in peoples lives. The purpose of this article is, after presenting and analyzing the economic and social consequences of the spreading of COVID-19 and the measures taken by the government, to show that they have had an impact on all areas of the social system and that they will have a further reflection over time. The analysis used a sociological approach that interprets society as an integral system of interrelated and interdependent elements.The analysis showed that, especially in spring, instead of looking for options that balance safety and the ability to work, introducing fewer measures, but more carefully thought out, and strictly monitor their compliance, in fact, too many measures were taken. As the result, the control over their observance was weak. It is difficult to deny the lack of a systematic approach and thinking in perspective. The focus was exclusively on the results characterizing the spread of the coronavirus, ignoring the effects in other areas of public life, as well as in relation to diseases other than coronavirus. The epidemic highlighted problems and gaps in the countrys health care system and showed that there is a need to rethink the universality of market principles, whether they are applicable to health care system, and whether cost-effectiveness is the most important indicator for it, or the criteria for it effectiveness are different.

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