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Health Social Movements
Health Social Movements
Abstract Submissions Closed
Thursday, 25 February 2021: 14:15-15:45
Location:
RC15 Sociology of Health (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
It has been traditionally thought that there was an unbalanced relationship between patients and professionals. However, patient participation and collaboration with health professionals have been changing this hierarchical status. Healthcare reform that responds to unmet needs is a most urgent challenge and patients have recently been taking important roles. While many individuals and agencies, including governments, associations of healthcare professionals and lawyers have worked to solve these problems, the collective action of people with illnesses and disabilities and their families is just as important. By exchanging information among international sociological scholars, this session aims to explore changes in the relationship between patients and professionals by analyzing the patients’ interaction with professionals in the healthcare field. Papers from studies conducted at local, national and international levels that contribute to conceptualization and/or methodological and empirical developments in this field are welcome.
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