Medical Sociology

Medical sociology is the study of individual and group behaviors with respect to health and illness. The focus is not only on medical professionals or their behaviors, but also focuses on human behavioral responses to health and illness. Medical sociology is concerned with individual and group responses aimed at assessing well-being, maintaining health, acting upon real or perceived illness, interacting with health care systems, and maximizing health in the face of physiologic or functional derangement. It also analyzes the impact of the psychological conditions resulting from our environment on our health.