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Chapter 19

Chapter 19. Health and Medicine. Culture and Health.

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Chapter 19

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  1. Chapter 19 Health and Medicine

  2. Culture and Health • Culture-bound syndrome refers to a disease or illness that cannot be understood apart from its specific social context (e.g., anorexia nervosa (厭食症) in the US: primarily young women in their teenage years or twenties, drastically reduce their body weight through self-induced semi-starvation and self-induced vomiting).

  3. Health, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), defined as a ‘state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity’.

  4. Social Epidemiology and Health • Social epidemiology (流行病學) is the study of the distribution of disease, impairment, and general health status across a population. • Incidence (發生率) refers to the number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time, usually a year.

  5. Prevalence refers to the total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time. • When incidence figures are presented as rates, or as the number of reports per 100,000 people, they are called, morbidity rates (罹病率). (mortality rate: the incidence of death in a given population)

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