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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

SO 3803 / 3800 – COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SOCIAL MEDICINE

 

 

 

Date & Time: 24/04/2007 / 9:00 – 12:00      Dept. No.                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

Part – A                                   (10 x 2 = 20 marks)

 

Write a short note on the following questions in about 30 words each.

 

1. Chiropractic approach.
2. Social Etiology.
3. Primitive Medicine.
4. Epidemiology.
5. Crude Birth Rate.
6. Health.
7. Secondary attack rate.
8. Renaissance Medicine.
9. Eclectics.
10.  Disease-object intrusion.

 

Part – B                                   (5 x 8 = 40 marks)

 

Answer any FIVE questions in about 300 words each.

 

1. Write a short note social epidemiology.
2. Explain the role that exists between Hospital and Patient.
3. What are the strategies used to prevent communicable disease?
4. What could be done to reduce inequalities in healthcare?
5. What is labelling theory? How does it affect the sick?
6. Write a short note on the need for the professionalization of medicine.
7. Write a short note on renaissance medicine.

 

 

Part – C                                   (2 x 20 = 40 marks)

 

Answer any TWO questions in about 1200 words.

 

1. Critically evaluate the Azande’s practice of medicine.
2. Write an essay detailing the Greek and Roman practice in medicine.
3. Examine in detail the systems of medicine that is practiced in India.
4. As a medical sociologist what suggestion would you give to government of Tamil Nadu for tackling the mosquito menace?

 

 

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