Health and Society

Definition Community rating in health insurance refers to a pricing method where premiums (the am...

Definition Experience ratings in health insurance refer to a method used by insurance companies t...

Definition A Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) is a type of managed health insurance plan tha...

Medicalization Medicalization is the process by which non-medical problems become defined and tre...

Definition The nature–nurture issue is a long-standing debate over the relative influence of gene...

Perspectives on Forced Help At what point—if ever—should a society require someone to accept help...

Providing Aid and Assistance Societies provide assistance for a variety of reasons—some rooted in...

The Sick Role The concept of the sick role was introduced by sociologist Talcott Parsons in 1951 ...