Sociology of Health and IllnessSociological approaches focus on the identification of the two sociological theories. We critically analyzed the biomedical model and the doctor-patient relationship. We also assessed how health professionals exercise social control and their contribution to poor health. The difference between society and health is studied by the sociologist in relation to health and illness. It also addresses health in relation to social institutions, for example family, employment and school. However, health can be defined in different ways, as negative and positive. Health is seen as the absence of disease or abnormalities in the body. This is similar to positive when health focuses on the presence of certain attributes, rather than their absence. This is different from the World Health Organization (WHO 2008), according to which health requires a person to be in perfect physical, mental and social health, but not just the absence of disease. It also requires the person to be socially and economically productive to be considered healthy. According to Mildred Blaxter (1990), there are different ways of defining health. Additionally, disease can be seen as the presence of an abnormality in a part of the body or a harmful physical change in the body, such as broken bones. So, illness is the physical state of illness, that is, the symptoms that a person experiences because of the illness. However, these definitions have certain limitations, which do not simply relate to the absence of disease but to a state of physical, mental, spiritual and social well-being. (Haralambos and Holbon 2009 p: 50). Therefore, there is social control...... middle of article...... Bibliography: https://www.palgrave.com/biotonpdfs0333 994571914 cha13.pdf (Accessed 11-04-2014) http://interruptions.net/literature/waitzkin-JHSB89.pdf (accessed 04-12-2014) www.cliffsnotes.com article p: 4 sociological perspectives on health accessed 04-12-2014 Reference: Sociology for SA AQA Ken B 4th edition ISBN-13:978-0-7456-5551-2(Pb)World Health Organization cited in Haralambos and Holborn (2009) Sociology Themes and Perspectives: Students Hand Book, seventh edition, London Collins Publishers. Taylor, s and Dfield2003 sociology of health Cambridge, BlackwellMarx, Karl and Friedrich Engels 1846(1939).German ideology. New York: internationalKevin White pp: 5-8k introduction to the sociology of health and illness, second edition books.goole.co.uk accessed 11-04-2014