COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SAĞ 4103 SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

HEALTH INSTITUTIONS MANAGEMENT

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

INSTRUCTOR OSMAN LEVENT AKAY

Offered to

HEALTH INSTITUTIONS MANAGEMENT (Evening)
HEALTH INSTITUTIONS MANAGEMENT

Course Objective

This course provides to establish with the management of health services and health services the relationship between the socio-cultural structure of the society. To increase the efficiency of the management of health services to improve behavior

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to explain the relationship between society and health-illness-health management
2   Being able to classification of social factors that affect a case of health-illness-health management
3   Being able to define the relationship between the Health-illness-health management and state institutions
4   Being able to establish the relationship between cultural values and health, illness and health management
5   Being able to the sort of sociological reasons of the illness

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Emergence, development and subject areas of sociology of medical
2 Basic notions: Health, illness and illness behavior
3 Health-Illness System: Presentation and use of services
4 Relationship between socio-cultural structure and health
5 The social factors affecting health-illness phenomenon (gender, marital status, family, education, occupation, class, status
6 The social factors affecting health-illness phenomenon (social environment, cultural values, religion, and political conditions etc.)
7 Social change, social stratification. Socialization, social institutions, The relationship between family structure, and health in Türkiye
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 Social change, social stratification. Socialization, social institutions, The relationship between family structure, and health in Türkiye
10 Health inequalities, concepts, causes, solutions policies
11 Demographic structure and health
12 Community-based medical education and alternative medicine
13 Women and violence
14 Sociological evaluation of public health in today's Türkiye
15 End of Term General Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Sağlık Sosyolojisi, Zafer Cirhinlioğlu, Nobel Yayın Dağıtım, 2016
Sağlık Sosyolojisi, Atatürk Ünv. Açık Öğretim Fakültesi Yayınları

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecturing
2. Problem solving and case studies

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FN Final
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE VZ*0.40 + FN* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) VZ*0.40 + BUT* 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. Midterm Exam
2. Final Exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

levent.akay@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

everday 08.00 / 17.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Preparing presentations 1 6 6
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 76

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51