Showing papers in "Social Science & Medicine in 1973"

TL;DR: This brief essay describes a central problem in the understanding of the patient and his environment and the difficulties inherent in studying this problem and the insights from psychiatry and anthropology which made its investigation possible.

TL;DR: A measure of family functioning, intended to assess the strength of relationships and life style taken as a whole, is described, and the content, reliability and validity are described.

TL;DR: The patient's perception of his health status, social class, and sense of control over his fate predict return to work, while only amount ofweekly work involvement before the attack and the perceived pressures from significant others predict amount of weekly work involvement 6 months after the attack.

TL;DR: The preliminary findings indicate that the precursor of cholesterol is significantly related to kind of job but not to the level of tje job in the PTT hierarchy, and that a relatively low job level was related to relatively high number of EKG abnormalities.

TL;DR: A sample of eastern European refugees who had arrived in Australia prior to 1955, and who were patients of any facility of the Victorian Mental Health Department during the period 1961–1968, were intensively interviewed to determine their war experiences, socio-cultural backgrounds, family settings, educational and work histories and adjustment problems in Australia.

TL;DR: The hypothesis of a “convergence” of the health system of industrial societies toward a fairly common pattern under the impact of certain types of universal constraints is tested.

TL;DR: Although an association between social involvement and morale is found, it appears to be explained by the patient's perception of his health, which calls for a modification of social gerontology's theory of morale.

TL;DR: It was found that parenthood like other demographic variables such as marital status age sex and race did affect a persons prediliction toward suicide, and data suggest that p Parenthood rather than marital status per se is the important variable.

TL;DR: White-collar workers were most disposed to obesity as a possible risk factor, agricultural Workers were most likely to experience job stresses and strains associated with increased CHD risk.

TL;DR: Families headed by single women were especially likely to identify the ER as their regular source of care in contrast to two parent families, and Escort's perceptions of the illness differed markedly from those of physicians.

TL;DR: This paper will present data about how trainees in two specialties of medicine view issues which, from a lay point of view, are issues of failure of work, and the implications of these findings for the issue of accountability.

TL;DR: After an average of two years of living with a home maintenance hemodialysis regime, 23 couples report that work, friendship, and the companionship aspects of family life constitute high areas of satisfaction.

TL;DR: A historical review is covered, covering briefly four phases: antecedent studies which anticipated the post-war trend; the main period of intellectual trial, 1946–1955; pedagogical trial, 1955–1965; and evolving acceptance and integration, 1965-present.

TL;DR: A psychiatric survey of 959 Australian Western Desert and Kimberley aborigines finds cases of dementia, schizophrenia, puerperal psychosis, depression, hysterical states, personality disorders, organic brain syndromes, mental deficiency and childhood behavioural disorders.

TL;DR: Examination of the differential prestige accorded various medical specialities by practicing physicians in a metropolitan medical community is provided and the implications for intra-occupational interaction and organizational change are explored.

TL;DR: Mental hospitals in the past have gone through periods of reform and decline, and recent improvements in the care of the chronically handicapped psychiatric patient are not immune from this cycle.

TL;DR: There may be in some cultures diagnostic biases in which symptoms of depression manifested by lower class patients are not recognised and certain class positions (and upward social mobility) may be associated with kinds of stress which might dispose individuals to depression.

TL;DR: The advertisements of the psychotropic drugs of two Finnish medical journals in the years 1959, 1965, 1971 were studied and compared to other drug advertisements by means of content analysis.

TL;DR: This paper will examine the nature of social deviance, the ways in which illness “fits” the deviance model, the limitations of the deviant framework for the analysis of illness, and the major unexplored questions suggested by the orientation.

TL;DR: Helping people cope with failure is a stable function of medical institutions and is likely to persist in the face of possible changes in the structure of the professional role and probably has a good deal of generality to many societies.

TL;DR: The survey highlights the value of research in the field of cultural stress factors for both psychiatrists and social scientists and opens up the wide field of prevention of mental illness by social engineering.

TL;DR: Samoan families involved in a disastrous fire in a West Coast city in 1964 and medical and agency personnel who worked with fire victims were interviewed 5 years after the fire to determine individual, family, and community response to the fire and its aftermath are investigated.

TL;DR: The paper describes the preclinical teaching of behavioral sciences at the University of Connecticut and concludes with a discussion of the importance of behavioral Sciences in preclinical medical and dental education, particularly with respect to the current goal of comprehensive health care.

TL;DR: The menopause did appear to be related to subjective health and sex identity but not to age identity, and postparenthood, particularly where a daughter was being relinquished, appeared to be more stressful than grandparent.

TL;DR: Examination of over 50 evaluative surveys of emergency ambulance services in the U.S. and abroad finds that sensitivity and specificity indices are required to evaluate the extent of inappropriate ambulance utilization and of unmet need, and applies them to the Chicago emergency ambulance system.

TL;DR: Further findings are presented from the original Midtown Manhattan Study, and a preliminary delineation of smoking changes between 1953 and 1970 in a subsample of Midtown respondents, together with an assessment of the data.

TL;DR: A model is suggested including several typologies of patient performancee as a fruitful point of departure for understanding intrainstitutional processes without facing the traditional pitfalls of categorizing functional systems in terms of entire occupational groups.

TL;DR: A study of the views of students and staff on a course in behavioural sciences taught in the third preclinical year of the Edinburgh Medical School curriculum finds expectations of the value of the subjects, changes in these, interests and relevance of particular topics, and prior knowledge of subjects are all considered.