■ Courses
[COURSES]
As a part of the program requirements, students should take designated number of elective courses offered by the fourteen departments.
The Department of Health Sociology offers the courses below.
Health Sociology I ( 2 credits)
Assoc. Prof. Yamazaki and Affiliates
The purpose of this seminar is for students to obtain a basic understanding of the health sociological approach through a quick overview of major concepts, principles, and research in sociology of health and medicine.
Topics to have been covered in this seminar
2003
- Sociological prespectives on bioethical issues
- Supportive relationships and subjective life expectancy
- Stigma and the self
- Re-examining QOL construct and measurement
- Responce shift in the assesment of QOL
- Dignity in the terminally ill
- Paradigm shift in health education
- Communication between professional and family with AIDS patients
- Doctor-Patient communication
- Patient centredness
2002
- Health literacy
- Health and feelings of trust and security
- A social model of disablement and ICIDH-2
- Stress coping process
- Stress-related growth
- Quality and value of life
- Restructing and emplotee's health
- Patients participation
- Physician`s well-being and patient care
- Mental health and sociology
2001
- Rethinking patient satisfaction
- Gender differences in the doctor-nurse relationship
- Process of nonvocal communication
- Cultural differences in menopausal symptoms
- Quality of life in WHO health promotion
- Cancer patients' and their spuses stress-coping
- Living with HIV / AIDS
- Perceived stigma and perceived discrimination
2000
- Introduction to health sociology
- Rethinking patient satisfaction
- Productive activity and health
- The meaning of self-care
- Life/rore transitions and mental health
- Narrative therapy
- Minority stress and mental health
- Lay-professional differences in perspectives
- Womanhood and nursing
1999
- Introduction to health sociology
- Meaning of patient satisfaction
- Meaning of dissatisfaction
- Stress process in caregiver
- Self-help groups and paradigm change
- Living with HIV/AIDS
- School health and community
- Explanations for Social inequality in health
- Negotiation in doctor-nurse interaction
1998
- Introduction: Sociology of health
- Stress, coping, and social support: Part 1
- Stress, coping, and social support: Part 2
- Familial and social relations and health
- Caregiving and well-being: Life course approach
- Re-examining QOL construct and measurement
- Living with chronic illness: Sociological approaches to chronic illness
- Social causes of disease
- Women and health: Social research and public policy
- Sociological study of health policy
Health Sociology II( 2 credits)
Assoc. Prof. Yamazaki
This seminar introduces students to basic methods and techniques in designing and conducting social research - in general, both quantitative and qualitative - in the health field.
Readings were drawn from texts as follows:
2001
- Yin,R.K. Case Study Research : Design and Methods. 2nd. ed. Sage Publications, 1994.
- Devellis,R.F., Scale Development: Theory and Applications. Sage Publications, 1991.
2000
- Lofland,J., Lofland,L.H., Analyzing Social Settings: A Guide to Qualitative Observation and Analysis, 3rd Edition. Wadsworth, 1995.
1999
- Creswell,J.W., Research Design: Qualitative & Quantitative Approaches. Sage, 1994.
- Riessman,C.K., Qualitative Studies in Social Work Research. Sage, 1994.
1998
- Girden,E.R., Evaluating Research Articles : From Start to Finish. Sage Publications,1996.
(note. Health Sociology II in 2002 was held at the same time as Introduction to Multivariate Statistical Methods.)
Introduction to Multivariate Statistical Methods
Assoc. Prof. Yamazaki and Affiliates
This seminar is designed to learn the basic statistical methods such as factor analysis, analysis of variance/covariance, multiple regression analysis, multiple logistic regression analysis.
