Course addresses logic of research design and execution for students. Clarification of research question, delineation of work plan, and orientation to relevant theoretical literature or empirical data available. Sociodemographic variations and changes overtime in health and mortality profiles of populations and the relationship of morbidity, disability, and mortality trends. Provides clinical experience in multidisciplinary assessment for sociologists, nurses, physicians, and other clinicians. Involves application of social, psychological, economic, and other factors in assessment.
Course covers social and medical models and theories of disability and handicap.
Areas covered include definitions, utility of role theory, models of identification and causation, and sociological perspectives on disability policy. Examines the distribution of alcohol and drug use across and within societies and various policies and their consequences for the control and management of alcohol and drug abuse. This course addresses legal, ethical, and social policy issues relating to health care in the United States and examines how these issues affect specific health care concerns. Students gain an insight into the relationship between ethical and legal perspectives and the delivery of health care. Course examines early functionalist and Marxist theories, Kuhn's work, social constructionist, ethnomethodological, interactionist, neofunctionalist, critical, and neo-Marxist perspectives.