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Manifest functions are the consequences that people see, observe or even expect. It is explicitly stated and understood by the participants in the relevant action. The manifest function of a rain dance, according to Merton in his 1957 Social Theory and Social Structure, is to produce rain, and this outcome is intended and desired by people participating in the ritual.
Examples of diseases of affluence include mostly chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and other physical health conditions for which personal lifestyles and societal conditions associated with economic development are believed to be an important risk factor—such as type 2 diabetes, asthma, coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease ...
This category relates to specifically sociological terms and concepts. Wider societal terms that do not have a specific sociological nature about them should be added to social concepts in keeping with the WikiProject Sociology scope for the subject.
The term is derived from the city of Dum Dum, the site of an outbreak. English disease: Rickets [8] So named due to its prevalence in English slums. French disease: Syphilis [9] Used as an ethnic slur against the French. Front-street fever: Dengue fever [3] Used in reference to a 1780 outbreak in Philadelphia. Gargoylism Hurler Syndrome (MPS ...
The Talmudic code created rules for health which stressed ritual cleanliness, connected disease with certain animals and created diets. [12] Other examples include the Mosaic Code and Roman baths and aqueducts. [12] Those that were most concerned with health, sanitation and illness in the ancient world were those in the elite class. [12]
Ecosocial theory, first proposed by name in 1994 by Nancy Krieger of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, [1] is a broad and complex theory with the purpose of describing and explaining causal relationships in disease distribution.
Scheuermann's disease; Scrapie; Senescence; SIDS; Sleeping sickness of Kalachi, Kazakhstan; Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak; Sudden unexplained death in childhood; Sweating sickness; Synovial osteochondromatosis; Systemic scleroderma
A secondary disease is a disease that is a sequela or complication of a prior, causal disease, which is referred to as the primary disease or simply the underlying cause . For example, a bacterial infection can be primary, wherein a healthy person is exposed to bacteria and becomes infected, or it can be secondary to a primary cause, that ...