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The Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology

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500 Index<br />

Inter-American Cooperative Public<br />

Health Service, 237<br />

interactionist theory, 145±6, 148<br />

see also symbolic interaction<br />

interdependence, 252<br />

interest group competition<br />

conflict theory, 9±11<br />

International Monetary Fund (IMF), 219,<br />

372<br />

interpretive understanding, 12<br />

intestinal diseases, 325<br />

intimacy, expected levels of, 134<br />

Iran, 394, 415<br />

Iraq<br />

Arab Christians, 394<br />

medical schools, 403<br />

Ireland<br />

health care system, 165<br />

institutional care, 172<br />

life expectancy, 300<br />

non-manual workers, 302, 314n<br />

poverty, 302<br />

smoking, 305<br />

work stress, 123<br />

Islam, 366, 393±4<br />

Islamic fundamentalism, 128<br />

Islamic organizations, 402<br />

Israel, 410±25<br />

divorce rate, 415<br />

fertility rate, 415<br />

formal support systems, 416<br />

health behavior, 419<br />

health care system, 162, 420±4<br />

health indica<strong>to</strong>rs, 417±19<br />

illegal immigrants, 128<br />

illness behavior, 419±20<br />

infant mortality, 412, 417±18<br />

informal copingresources, 414±16<br />

life expectancy, 417±18<br />

marriage rate, 415<br />

medical profession, 154, 413±14, 422±3<br />

migrants, 134, 136, 411±14, 422<br />

mortality, 417±18<br />

non-conventional medicine, 420, 423<br />

physicians, 413±14, 419, 422±3<br />

population characteristics, 417<br />

stress, 410±11, 418<br />

Israeli Defense Force, 411<br />

Israeli <strong>Medical</strong> Association, 422±3<br />

ISSSTE (Mexican Institute of Social Security<br />

and Services for Public Employees), 219<br />

Italy<br />

African missionaries, 366<br />

divorce rate, 415<br />

educational levels, 302<br />

fertility rate, 415<br />

GP role, 168<br />

health care system, 165<br />

health inequalities, 83, 84<br />

Hofstede's value orientations, 171<br />

income inequality, 303<br />

infant mortality, 184<br />

institutional care, 172<br />

marriage rate, 415<br />

mortality rates, 82, 84<br />

non-manual workers, 302<br />

professional home care, 172<br />

smoking, 305<br />

women physicians, 150<br />

work stress, 120, 122, 123<br />

Ivanov, V. N., 321<br />

IVF programs, 45<br />

Izraeli, Dafna, 418<br />

Izutkin, Ana<strong>to</strong>liy, 321, 322<br />

Jacobs, M., 380<br />

James, Veronica, 15, 253<br />

Jamison, Dean T., 457, 458, 462, 465, 466, 473<br />

Janca, A., 30<br />

JaneckovaÂ, H., 355, 357, 358<br />

Japan, 441±55<br />

cancers, 442<br />

charity/discount clinics, 448<br />

communism, 449<br />

commuters, 443±4<br />

cooperative movement, 449<br />

cost containment policies, 452±4<br />

divorce rate, 415<br />

elderly, 169, 453, 454<br />

fertility rate, 415<br />

gender differences in mortality, 101<br />

health care system, 168±9, 446±54<br />

health insurance, 448, 450±1<br />

his<strong>to</strong>rical review of health policies, 446±54<br />

hospitals, 164, 168±9, 447±8, 450, 451, 452,<br />

453±4<br />

infant mortality, 184, 442, 449<br />

institutional care, 172<br />

life expectancy, 101, 298, 300, 442<br />

marriage rate, 415<br />

medical education/schools, 447, 452, 454<br />

mortality, 442<br />

neurotic disorders, 443±4, 445<br />

physician±patient interaction, 34<br />

physicians, 447, 451±2<br />

private health sec<strong>to</strong>r, 447±8, 451±2<br />

professional home care, 172<br />

sociocultural fac<strong>to</strong>rs of health/illness, 441±5<br />

stress, 444, 445<br />

Japan Council for Quality Health Care, 454<br />

Japan <strong>Medical</strong> Association, 452<br />

Japan <strong>Medical</strong> Corporation, 449±50, 451<br />

Jaros, J., 355<br />

Jefferys, Margot, 249<br />

Jenkins, Richard, 17<br />

Jensen, G. A., 185<br />

Jewell, J. A., 463<br />

Jewson, Nick, 250<br />

job enlargement, 122<br />

job enrichment, 122<br />

job security, 118, 122<br />

job strain, 116, 117±18, 119±21

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