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 wide
range of multidisciplinary research. Including research in the fields of medical sociology,
social epidemiology and political epidemiology. Areas that in our Republic are rather
neglected. 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 global
scale has aroused very strong interest in its study from the scientific position of medical
sociology, most often in community, i. e. as a truly multidisciplinary approach, and with some
close 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 direct
and specialize (and) in different types of research in the field of medical sociology. Medical
sociology as a special sociology is also called as sociology of medicine, sociology of health
and 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-19
pandemic will be research-analytically “illuminated”. Among other things, the aspects of
the 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 that
deal with them, means the areas of preventive and preclinical medicine in terms of clinical
medicine, the phenomenon of risk balancing and some others.