''Sociology of Health & Illness'' (SHI) is a

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which covers the

sociological Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociology was coined in ...

aspects of

health Health has a variety of definitions, which have been used for different purposes over time. In general, it refers to physical and emotional well-being, especially that associated with normal functioning of the human body, absent of disease, p ...

illness A disease is a particular abnormal condition that adversely affects the structure or function (biology), function of all or part of an organism and is not immediately due to any external injury. Diseases are often known to be medical condi ...

medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...

, and

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. It is published by

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on behalf of the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness. Established in 1979, the journal was originally published by

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(up to 2002). The Editorial Team is currently led by Karen Lowton (University of Sussex) and Flis Henwood (University of Brighton) as joint Editors in Chief. Other members of the team are: Dr Catherine Will, Dr Ben Fincham, Dr Catherine Theodosius, Professor Gillian Bendelow and Dr Sasha Scambler. During the years, the annual number of issues has risen from three to four (1986), five (1993), six (1998) and seven (2003) to eight times a year since 2012. According to the ''

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'', the journal had an

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of 1.735 in 2012, 1.89 in 2016, and currently stands at 2.9 in 2022. The journal was ranked in 2022 as follows: *88/181 (Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (Social Science)) *15/45 (Social Sciences, Biomedical) *39/149 (Sociology)

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* {{Official website, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9566
Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness
Wiley-Blackwell academic journals English-language journals Academic journals established in 1979 Sociology journals

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