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SOCIOLOGY
(14 hours)
Course objectives:
To introduce to the students the concepts of
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.
Course syllabus
1 Social Science and Pharmacy (lecture)
2 Sociological Understanding of Health and Illness (lecture)
3 Lay Health Beliefs and “Help-seeking” Behavior (lecture)
4 Social Factors and Health (lecture)
5 Social Inequalities and Health (lecture)
6 Is Pharmacy a Profession? (lecture)
7 Pharmacist and Health Promotion (lecture)
Course Faculty:
Zsuzsa Szántó, PhD, (Head of the Department of Sociology), 210-2930/56338; e-mail:
szanzsu@net.sote.hu
Katalin Kovács, PhD e-mail: kovacsk.katalin@gmail.com
Department:
Institute of Behavioral Sciences
Department of Sociology
NET Building, 19th, 20th floor
1089. Budapest, Nagyvárad tér 4.
Tel: 210-2953
Secretary: NET Building, 20th floor, Room-2005
Important notes: To participate on at least 75% of the total number of lessons is a prerequisite
for getting the signature. (Two absences from the lectures is the maximum number permitted.) The
student can make up for the absences in practicals held at other times elsewhere. Participation
submitting home paper.
Justifying absence: with doctor’s certificate
Semester grade: The result of the semi-final and home paper.
Justifying absence from the exam: A telephone message to the secretary of the Institute.
Textbook:
SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY / FACULTY OF PHARMACY
1 Kevin Taylor, Sarah Nettleton, Geoffrey Harding: Sociology for pharmacists. Taylor and Francis, London,
2003
2 Handouts for the lectures will be accessible on the homepage of the Institute of Behavioral Sciences:
www.magtud.sote.hu.
Faculty of
Pharmacy
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