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GNS 124 Medical Sociology

ND1 levelMedical & Health Sciences16 topics

GNS 124 covers 16 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Socio-cultural aspects of medicine
  2. Sociology and culture
  3. Nature and scope of medical sociology
  4. Concepts of health and illness
  5. Socio-cultural implications of ill-health
  6. Family and societal response to disease
  7. Social class and illness
  8. Diseases of affluence and poverty
  9. Modern and traditional medicine
  10. Health care delivery methods
  11. Practitioner-client relationships
  12. Health care delivery in Nigeria
  13. Government social and health policies
  14. Current health problems in Nigeria
  15. Preventive vs curative medicine
  16. EPI and ORT programmes

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Socio-cultural aspects of medicine

Socio‑cultural aspects of medicine examine how cultural beliefs, social norms, and power relations shape health behaviours, medical practice, and health outcomes. Mastering these concepts is essential for the NUC CCMAS/NBTE/NCCE exams because they test students’ ability to analyse health issues beyond biological mechanisms and to apply sociological theories to real‑world health settings.

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