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- Title
DENGUE: A MORDACIOUS EPIDEMIC OF PAKISTANI SOCIETY.
- Authors
Ijaz, Namra; Mukhtar, Tehmeena; Ali, Gohar
- Abstract
Dengue fever is a viral infection transmitted by mosquitoes and has emerged as a major epidemic in numerous countries worldwide, including Pakistan, since 1994. Pakistan faced a severe crisis concerning dengue fever from 2005 to 2006, during which a significant number of individuals were affected by the disease, and numerous fatalities were reported. Specifically, according to the World Health Organization, there were a cumulative total of 25,932 confirmed cases of dengue fever and 62 deaths reported across the country during this period. The present study seeks to elucidate the social epidemiology of the dengue epidemic in Pakistan by analyzing three levels of analysis, namely, the individual, social, and societal levels, as delineated by Turner (1995). The research methodology involves collecting secondary data, subsequently subjected to thematic analysis. At the individual level, the medical factors include social support, lay beliefs, compliance practices, health behavior, and lay referrals. In contrast, the non-medical factors include the social construction of diseases and medical knowledge, narratives of social identity, and the sociology of the body. At the social level, the study considers two categories of factors: in and off the medicine. In medicine, factors encompass social causes of disease, social epidemiology, managerial effectiveness, efficiency, evaluation, health promotion and education, and health inequalities. Off medicine, factors include medical dominance and interprofessional rivalry, lay-professional relationships and relative conflicts, medicalization, managerialism as ideology, and comparative discourses. At the societal level, the in-medicine factors include improving the effectiveness and efficiency of policies and government initiatives and building social capital in the community. Off-medicine factors include the relations of capitalism with healthcare systems, social health movements, and the social construction of the community through disciplinary surveillance.
- Subjects
DENGUE; SOCIAL support; HEALTH behavior; CAPITALISM; SOCIAL capital
- Publication
University of Chitral Journal of Sociology, 2020, Vol 4, Issue 2, p23
- ISSN
2664-2034
- Publication type
Article