SOCIOLOŠKI PRISTUPI ZDRAVLJU I BOLESTI
SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO HEALTH AND DISEASE

Summary/Abstract: In this work four sociological approaches to health and disease are analysed by means of relevant foreign literature: a) functional, b) marxist, c) phenomenological, and d) radical. The authors conclude that none of these approaches separately give the solution for the research of complex relations to health and disease of an individual and social groups, i. e. society. The socio-medical approaches described help to understand the society itself and make it possible to define health policy in concrete conditions, which directly influences health and social results. The picture of health of a population, obtained by socio-medical researche helps the affirmation of these cultural behavioural patterns that promote health, and the recognition of behavioural patterns that endanger health. It can be useful in carrying out the International Health Organization programme “Health for All by the Year 2000” and preserving the citizens’ mental, social and reproductive health in a complex condition of transition. It can help doctors and other medical professionals find answers to more complex socio/medical, medically/ethical and medically/legal answers in public health in the 21st century.

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