The Sociology of Health

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Across
  1. 2. Kempson & Bryson argue ‘women are more likely to live in … than men’ [7]
  2. 4. Sociologist who says men take more risks in their lives than women [8]
  3. 6. Someone who works on behalf of the government to implement policies and deliver public services [5,7]
  4. 8. Word that describes the extent of illness or disease in a population [9]
  5. 12. This is the key word associated with AO2 [11]
  6. 15. Type of fatty butter that is common in dishes cooked by people from South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) [4]
  7. 16. Key sociologist associated with regional differences in health inequalities [7]
  8. 17. Government report that put forward six recommendations for future health policies to address the social class health divide [6,6]
Down
  1. 1. ‘Status…’ – the way lower socio-economic groups of people experience more stress and less control in their lives, leading to poorer health [8]
  2. 3. Sociologist who uses gender role socialisation to explain why men have higher mortality rates and women have higher morbidity rates [9]
  3. 5. Explanation for social class differences in health that suggests the statistics are skewed towards older people working in traditional, working class jobs [8]
  4. 7. Type of anaemia that black people are more biologically vulnerable to getting [7, 4]
  5. 9. Sociologist associated with explaining ethnic health inequalities through material factors [6]
  6. 10. Boys born in this UK city have a life expectance 13 years below those born in the London borough of Kensington & Chelsea [7]
  7. 11. The part of England that has worse health chances than the South [5]
  8. 13. Parsons suggests that patients who are officially considered unwell/ill need to adopt this pattern of behaviour – and doctors act as gatekeepers to it [4, 4]
  9. 14. This sociologist suggests women are more likely to be diagnosed than men with mental illnesses and are therefore over-represented in mental illness statistics [8]