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SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY / FACULTY OF MEDICINE
MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
AOMAGSZO_1A
Semester: 1st
Credit: 2
Responsible person and Institute for the course: Dr. Zsuzsa Szántó; Institute of Behavioural
Sciences
Lecturers: Dr. Zsuzsa Szántó
Dr. Katalin Kovács
Dr. Bea Dávid
Dr. Fruzsina Albert
Goals of the subject:
To introduce to the students the social distribution of health and illness, the causes and
consequences of health status inequalities, the role of psychosocial factors in health care, the
social phenomena occurring in healing, the social situation of medicine, and the social
embeddedness of the health care system.
Syllabus of the subject:
Week Class type Themes
1 Lecture Introduction. Changing patterns of disease
2 Lecture Health and illness behaviour.
3 Lecture Social inequalities in health and mortality.
4 Seminar Health and illness behaviour.
5 Seminar Social inequalities in health and mortality.
6 Lecture Health professions
7 Seminar Health professions
8 Lecture National variations of health care
9 Lecture Health care and health policy
10 Lecture Midterm examination
11 Seminar Chronic illness and disability
12 Seminar Ageing and care of the elderly
13 Seminar Gender aspects of health
14 Seminar Doctor-patient relationship
The course consists of: (lecture, seminar, laboratory exercise):
7 lectures, 7 seminars.
Course requirements, methods of monitoring:
To obtain signature for absolving the course students have to participate at a minimum of 10
classes. Participation is documented through catalogues. A midterm exam is taken after the 6th
lecture. It is also required to submit a home paper or a class presentation in course-related topics
by the end of the semester. The course ends with an exam; the grade may include the results of
the midterm and the home assignment.