COVID-19 PANDEMIC: SOME MEDICAL-SOCIOLOGICAL, SOCIAL-EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL-EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ASPECTS

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is an extremely provocative and challenging topic for a widerange of multidisciplinary research. Including research in the fields of medical sociology,social epidemiology and political epidemiology. Areas that in our Republic are ratherneglected. In any case, unjustified. This statement certainly applies and to medical sociology,as a separate sociology in relation to general sociology. The COVID-19 pandemic on a globalscale has aroused very strong interest in its study from the scientific position of medicalsociology, most often in community, i. e. as a truly multidisciplinary approach, and with someclose special sociology, but also in multidisciplinary community with other scientific fields.Including epidemiology, i. e. social epidemiology and political epidemiology. In our country,a very small number of sociologists, through their research interest and engagement, are directand specialize (and) in different types of research in the field of medical sociology. Medicalsociology as a special sociology is also called as sociology of medicine, sociology of healthand diseases… In this text, as a combined approach from the sides of medical sociology,social epidemiology and political epidemiology, several selected aspects of the COVID-19pandemic will be research-analytically “illuminated”. Among other things, the aspects ofthe definition of health and disease, as basic notions in the field of medical sociology, then,the aspects of the treatment of public health, infectious diseases and the medical fields thatdeal with them, means the areas of preventive and preclinical medicine in terms of clinicalmedicine, the phenomenon of risk balancing and some others.