Module GW3260-KP04

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

4

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Bachelor Interdisciplinary Courses for health sciences, optional subject, Interdisciplinary modules
• Bachelor Interdisciplinary Courses, optional subject, Interdisciplinary modules

Classes and lectures:

• Sociology of health (seminar, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 30 hours in-classroom work
• 90 hours private studies

Contents of teaching:

• Explanatory approaches and concepts of health and disease
• Social construct of health and illness
• Social and cultural influences on health opportunities and disease risks
• Social determinants of health and health care
• Lifelong perspectives on health
• Health from a Gender Perspective
• Media construction of health

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• The students can describe different social science explanatory models of health and illness
• Students can reflect and critically analyze the social and socio-cultural causes and contexts of health and illness and their unequal distribution in society
• The students can explain and analyze health risk constellations as well as the conditions under which socially unequal health opportunities arise over the course of a lifetime.
• Students can critically discuss the influence of social media on health.
• Students reflect on their own understanding of health and illness against the background of social science theories and models.

Grading through:

• continuous, successful participation in course, >80%

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. phil. Dipl.-Soz. Katja Götz

Teacher:

• Institute of Family Medicine
• Prof. Dr. phil. Dipl.-Soz. Katja Götz

Literature:

• Hehlmann T, Schmidt-Semisch H, Schorb F. : Soziologie der Gesundheit UVK Verlag, München 2018
• Paul B, Schmidt-Semisch H. : Risiko Gesundheit. Über Risiken und Nebenwirkungen der Gesundheitsgesellschaft VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010
• Richter M, Hurrelmann K. : Soziologie von Gesundheit und Krankheit VS Springer, Wiesbaden 2016
• Richter M, Hurrelmann K. : Gesundheitliche Ungleichheit. Grundlagen, Probleme, Perspektiven VS Verlag für Sozialwisschenschaften 2006
• Franke A. : Modelle von Gesundheit und Krankheit Verlag Hans Huber, Bern 2006

Language:

• German and English skills required

Notes:

Last Updated:

18.02.2021