User:Maia.gouaze/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Sociology of health and illness

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this topic because I am interested in learning more about population health. This topic is important because health forms the basis of our lives and is important to maintain in society. My first impression is that this article is highly detailed and touches on the sociology of health in different countries.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Lead section:

The lead's introductory is short and easy to understand by clearing explaining what health sociology is in addition to the approach in takes when evaluating human health. The lead does not provide a description of the major sections but does touch on how health sociology is linked with historical influences. The lead section provides a brief overview of what this article will talk about and how it ties into other fields of sociology.

The content of the article is detailed, first talking about the history of soh of how populations from different times and places dealt with and cured illnesses. The content is up to date touches on the most pressing health issues by continent as-well as the cultural aspect. The article also talks about how cultural factors must be analyzed when evaluating the health of a country by shedding light on underrepresented populations. The tone and balance is neutral offering a broad history and perspective on the health and illness patterns in populations being mindful of each culture. The references used are from academic journals and peer reviewed sources such as the Journal of Sociology of Health and Illness and books surrounding that topic. However, most of theses sources are not current which could affect the article's reliability.

In terms of organization, the flow of the article does it a little lost in the beginning by jumping from historical era to another without having a seamless transition. The sections are clearly broken down and clearly explain how culture plays a factor in each country. The articles uses various images of maps and bar charts to better explain which diseases affect what countries with a citation included.

This article is part of an educational assignment and is rated as a C class on its content assessment scale and as mid importance on the project's importance scale. The talk page talked about how the author could give more context to the reader when talking about the history of health and illness while also defining terms that someone not studying sociology could understand. The discussing mainly touched on the missing gaps within the article and a plan to focus more on describing health related problems per country. It looks like the assignment was never fully completed as the last message from the students working on it was 10 years ago.

Overall, the article seems to not have received an update in a long time and could benefit from more detailed explanations as-well as a revised background section. If I were to edit this article, I would focus on modifying the background section to go more in depth about how to discipline came to be aswell as its historucal roots. I would also edit the international perspectives which touch on the health of different country and explain how health issues are perceived. This article is underdevloped as it has many gaps that talk more about public health issues rather than how the perspective of the sociology of health and illness is represented in each country.