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Faculty of Nursing
Adult care Nursing Department

Thus, from this perspective, the old paradigm of health education policy, namely changing

individual behavior, should be reassessed more as a consensual definition of the type of life that

society intends and is worth living (Buchanan 2000).

As a clearly structured science, sociology rests on the concepts of social reproduction and social
transformation.

Indeed, the generations of people who constitute a particular society are a continuum because
each generation slowly transforms itself due to several sociocultural factors.

Its methodological assumption, the sociological imagination, implies a rationale and detached

analysis in due time that allows for the objective study of the evil ton of humankind (Bird et al.

2000).

Disease represents a unique milestone in each person’s biography leading to a profound change
in an individual’s psycho logical state (Burl et al. 2014).

However, different people assume different roles in this context and in different diseases.

These roles are categorized according to archetypes that are well defined by biomedicine and
cause different alterations in the bio-psycho-social constitution of everyone.

The English language reclog nines this idiosyncrasy through these expressions: disease, sickness,

and illness.

The combination of signs and symptoms, that is, disease, becomes a sickness when the person

perceives it as such and illness when the individual is recognized as socially incapacitated by the
disease.

Cross-sector efforts may depend not only on the development of information infrastructure to

monitor health inequalities but also on the implementation of clear and effective marketing

strategies. Aggressive health education campaigns find ethical foundation in a higher social good

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