Rohani Azam, Makkizadeh Fatemeh
Department of Knowledge and Information Sciences, School of Social Sciences, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran.
Iran J Public Health. 2022 May;51(5):1161-1171. doi: 10.18502/ijph.v51i5.9431.
Medical sociology is concerned with the relationship between social factors and health, and with the application of sociological theory and research techniques to questions related to health and the health care system. Considering the wide range of studies in the field that each examined different aspects, to promote health in community, bibliometrics analysis in this area is felt.
In this descriptive-analytical study with a scientometric approach, the data about "medical sociology" were retrieved from PubMed in MEDINE format, including 1226 records over the period 1945-2018. By using Co-word analysis, clustering methods, and strategic diagram with the help of SPSS, UcInet 6 software the data were analyzed.
The keyword "Attitude to Health" and two pairs of frequently used keywords, namely "Power (Psychology)*Professional Autonomy" were the most frequent in medical sociology. The results shaped the concepts of medical sociology in 7 clusters. The clusters "Attitude of health personnel", "Health Policy" and "Sociology of Medical Education" are topics that may be emerging or disappearing. The "Physicians", "Models of Social Determinants of Health" and "medical philosophy" are immature clusters.
This research used co-word networks that indicate the important links between keywords of research areas. Considering the frequency of keywords along with the clusters obtained, it seems that the most research approach was seen on the medical aspect rather than the sociological aspect. Despite the importance of sociological aspects such as social rooting of disease, sociability, medicine as a social institution and etiological studies, these subjects have not been sufficiently considered.
医学社会学关注社会因素与健康之间的关系，以及社会学理论和研究技术在与健康及医疗保健系统相关问题上的应用。鉴于该领域众多研究各自考察了不同方面，为促进社区健康，有必要对该领域进行文献计量分析。
在这项采用科学计量方法的描述性分析研究中，从MEDLINE格式的PubMed数据库中检索关于“医学社会学”的数据，涵盖1945年至2018年期间的1226条记录。借助SPSS、UcInet 6软件，通过共词分析、聚类方法和战略图对数据进行分析。
关键词“对健康的态度”以及两对常用关键词，即“权力（心理学）*专业自主性”在医学社会学中出现频率最高。结果将医学社会学的概念形成了7个聚类。聚类“卫生人员的态度”、“卫生政策”和“医学教育社会学”是可能正在兴起或消失的主题。“医生”、“健康的社会决定因素模型”和“医学哲学”是不成熟的聚类。
本研究使用共词网络，该网络表明了研究领域关键词之间的重要联系。考虑到关键词的频率以及所获得的聚类，似乎医学方面的研究方法比社会学方面更为常见。尽管诸如疾病的社会根源、社交性、作为社会机构的医学以及病因学研究等社会学方面很重要，但这些主题尚未得到充分考虑。
