A Sociology Of Allied Health
In any specialty, various challenges beleaguer normal practice. From leadership to simple management in an establishment, challenges can either be neglected which are considered inconsequential but will be passed up which are grievous and which, if so neglected, may be extremely detrimental to normal operations in a professional. By reviewing, comparing and contrasting recent literature on identifying key aspects of medical dominance, the writer exposes the significance of such practice to nursing and general healthcare. A further synthesis of literature is done to expose the implications of key aspects to allied health nursing practice, staff education and clinical research management and leadership.
Sociologists believe that the three aspects, economy, political and clinical autonomy are connected to each other and which can only be established managing them concurrently. In addition a sociologist’ believes that man has conscious and he constructs meaning to a given situation with him as an actor. Sociological knowledge varies with situations, some of the results arrived at can be manipulated by the present situation for psychological reason.
The transfer of knowledge from general and medical sociology has been widely ignored. Pescosolido and Kronenfeld sounded a warning against the budding divide between these two fields and the implications. This has further intensified the bridge between sociological concepts and health care problems. If we leave sociology out of healthcare we will never identify the root cause of the existing problems in our healthcare systems.
In the study of allied health, sociology has a major role of facilitating the understanding of the various aspects. Despite the fact that sociology can effectively provide the understanding and the solutions to these aspects, sociological analysis has not been used previously for this purpose.
The study of political attitudes has a long history in the sociology. This research has been applied to allied health provider behavior, as was described earlier. Though politics may also affect patient behavior, this possibility has not been assessed. Patients’ political status may influence their feelings about their care and their decision-making. Some patients may respond by not communicating well or withdrawing, which would negatively impact communication and the relationship between patients and clinicians.
Many questions about patient economic status and how they affect the healthcare interaction and patient decision-making remain unexplored. Another route by which economic status might create a disparity in care is through an interaction with well do in the society in continuity of care and source of usual care. Having an established relationship with a clinician may effectively improve the likelihood of using medical procedures through a variety of social psychological processes. A more lengthy relationship between provider and patient diminishes the likelihood that the provider will rely on initial impressions and stereotypes when making judgments about the patient.
Conclusion
Access to healthcare is inequitably distributed across socioeconomic status. People who come from the lower income families, who have lower education levels and who have poor occupational status experience worse health and have shorter life spans than their counterparts Disparities are an essential healthcare issue that should be incorporated into organizational structure and functions in order to pioneer the collection of data to solve the problems that arise from the disparities. The government and the individual organizations should implement sound
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