استعرض مصدر Changing conceptions of health and life course concepts


Changing conceptions of
health and life course
concepts

Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
Arizona State University, USA

ABSTRACT Health as a social concept is very important in medical sociology.
More complicated conceptions of health as a multi-dimensional concept
have emphasized not only physical health status, but aspects of overall wellbeing.
This article continues in the tradition of a multi-dimensional concept
of health, but adds in the complexity of variation over the life course. As
people age, chronic health problems become more common. Mobility and
sensory limitations also increase. How does this impact how people view their
health? How do more complicated understandings of the life course and variation
by social factors link to an expanded model of health. This literature
review article covers material on concepts of health and life course concepts.

The concluding portions of the article focus on the need to improve measurement,
to incorporate diversity related to social factors such as gender and
race, and to incorporate a broader understanding of health problems into
conceptions of health across the life course.

KEYWORDS chronic health problems; health; life course

health: An Interdisciplinary Journal
for the Social Study of Health,
Illness and Medicine
1363-4593; Vol 10(4): 501–517

DOI: 10.1177/1363459306067316

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1363459306067316

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