Social medicine is the study of how social factors influence health and disease. It examines individuals within their total social environment using tools from epidemiology and sociology. Some key aspects of social medicine include social anatomy, social physiology, social pathology, social pediatrics, and social obstetrics. Social therapy focuses on social and political interventions rather than just medical treatments alone. Examples of social factors that can influence health include poverty, housing, education, and customs.

1. SOCIAL MEDICINE
By: Mayank Mittal
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2. SOCIAL MEDICINE
• Primarily an european speciality
• In 19th century by neumann & virchow
• In 1911 alfred grotjahn, stressed the
importance of social factors in the
etiology of disease .

3. DEFINITION
• It is the study of man as a social being
in his total environment.
• It stands on two pillars
• Medicine & sociology
• Laboratory--- community
• Tools --- epidemiology
& Biostatistics
• Treatment – Social therapy

4. ILLUSTRATION OF THE CONCEPT
– Tuberculosis
• Factors apart from the bacilli
(A) poverty
(B) low standard of living
(C) substandard housing
(D) lack of proper health education
(E) over crowding
(F) large family size
(G) social customs

5. ASPECTS OF SOCIAL MEDICINE
• Social anatomy
• Social physiology
• Social pathology
• Social pediatrics
• Social obstetrics
• Social therapy

6. • Social anatomy- study of social
structure of community.
• Social physiology- study of social
groups, social relations and social
controls.
• Social pathology- study of social factors
causing disease and consequences if
disease.

7. SOCIAL OBSTETRICS
• Study of the interplay of social & environmental
factors and human reproduction going back to
the preconceptional or even premarital period.
• Factors-
.Age at marriage
.Child bearing
.Family size & fertility patterns
.Level of education
.Economic status
.Customs & beliefs
.Role of women in society

8. SOCIAL PEDIATRICS
• The application of the principles of
social medicine to pediatrics to obtain
a more complete understanding of the
problems of children in order to
prevent & treat disease & promote their
adequate growth & development,
through an organised health structure.

9. SOCIAL THERAPY
• Doesnot imply administration of drugs, but
social & political action for the betterment
of the conditions of life & the entire lot of
man.
• Examples-
.Hookworm disease in community-
T/t- Mebendazole Or Albendazole.
Social therapy- Use of sanitary latrines &
not to go bare foot to the fields.

10. SOCIAL & BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES
• Social sciences are those disciplines which
are committed to the scientific examination
of human behaviour. These are
economics, political science, sociology,
social psychology and social anthropology.
• Sociology, social psychology and social
anthropology are called behavioural
sciences.

11. • Economics: deals with human relationships
in the specific context of production,
distribution, consumption and ownership of
scarce resources, goods and services.
• Political science: Study of the system of
laws and institutions which constitute
government of whole societies.
• Sociology: Study of human relationships &
of human behaviour for a better
understanding of the pattern of human life.

12. • Social psychology: Concerned with
psychology of individuals living in human
society or groups.
• Social anthropology: Anthropology is the
study of the physical, social and cultural
history of man. The study of development
and various types of social life is called
social anthropology. The study of total way
of life of primitive man, his ways of
thinking, feeling and action is called
cultural anthropology.

13. MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
• Proposed by Charles McIntire in 1894
• “Professional endeavor devoted to social
epidemiology, the study of cultural factors &
social relations in connection with illness &
social principles in medical organization &
treatment.
Doctor-Patient relationship.
Patient care management.
Hospital organization.
Collusion of medical treatment & cultural
practices.