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Patients Participation to Make a Collective Impact
Patients Participation to Make a Collective Impact
Abstract Submissions Closed
Thursday, 25 February 2021: 16:00-17:30
Location:
RC15 Sociology of Health (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
In modern times, the main disease structure has changed from infectious disease to chronic disease, and many people are now living with illness. Despite the patients' current situation, society still expects people with disease to behave consistently with the sick role which Talcott Parson’s previously defined. Once people are diagnosed, for example, as a cancer patient, they may lose their job and social participation opportunities and their hope to live. To change this situation, people living with disease do a variety of things, for instance, changing their illness image and repelling social stigma which is related to diseases by collaborating with other stakeholders such as medical and health professionals, persons from the workplace, fellow patients, and their community. Although there are many challenges, we can see the collective impact as a result of this movement. By exchanging information among international sociological scholars, this session aims to explore the challenge for stakeholders in each society of theoretical and empirical research on the movement of patients and supporters who change this social norm to counter social barriers and stigma, and strengthen discussions on a global level. 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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