Preferred Label : Medical Sociology;
NCIt definition : The study of individual and group behaviors with respect to health and illness. Medical
sociology is concerned with individual and group responses aimed at assessing well-being,
maintaining health, acting upon real or perceived illness, interacting with health
care systems, and maximizing health in the face of physiologic or functional derangement.
It also analyzes the impact of the psychological conditions resulting from our environment
on our health.;
Origin ID : C17144;
UMLS CUI : C0037470;
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