健康的根本原因理论——一个医学社会学的理论视角

Root Cause Theory of Health——A Theoretical Perspective of Medical Sociology

医学社会学认为人们的健康状况受到多种社会因素的影响,其中最受关注的变量就是个体的社会经济地位。健康的根本原因理论提出之所以人们之间存在健康状况的差异,社会经济地位是根本原因,并阐述了这一根本原因所必备的4个特征。后续研究进一步发展了该理论,补充了3种社会经济地位与个体健康状况之间的3种宏观影响机制。这一理论为医学社会学探索社会因素与健康状况的关系提供了有力的研究视角。

The medical sociology supposes that the health status of people is affected by various social factors, and the most popular variant is the social economic status of individuals, and the root cause theory of health is due to the difference in the health status among people, and the social economic status is the root cause, and the paper elaborates four features that the root cause must be equipped with. The subsequent study further develops the theory, and supplements three types of social economy status and individual health status, which provides a powerful study perspective for the medical sociology to explore the correlation between social factors and health status.