Critical Analysis of Healthcare Articles

Running head: HEALTHCARE
Topic: HEALTHCARE
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Introduction
Healthcare have been a pivotal part of the wealth as well as economy of the country.
The access to various facilities to the healthcare vary across communities, countries, as well
as individuals. It is considered as one of the most important component of the social
determinants of health. Healthcare and the various services pertaining to it is important as an
efficient system as it has an important contribution as a significant part of the country’s
development, economy as well as industrialization. The concept of social work is important
in healthcare as it helps in provision of solutions to families and their patients. Moreover, the
interaction between families and their patients are strengthened through the work of a social
worker. The main role is important for the escalation of their health.
This assignment is an analysis of the three articles by the authors Germov (2014),
McMurray (2003) as well as Thompson (2011). Moreover, this article would involve a
critical analysis of the main ideas highlighted in the articles and it would involve my
perception regarding the ideas highlighted in the articles which is arising from the key ideas
in the reading.
Germov, J 2014, ‘Imagining health problems as social issues’, in J Germov (ed.), Second
opinion: an introduction to health sociology, 5th edn, Oxford University Press, South
Melbourne
In this paper, Germov have highlighted the concepts of health and its effective amalgamation
with the theory of illness. He has introduced the sociological perspective and its use in a
broad range of health issues. According to him, the special concept of sociological
imagination helps in describing the distinctive features involving the sociological perspective
as well. It depends on the sociological imagination of the various cultural, historical structural
as well as critical factors. The author has also accepted the social origins of illness and health

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which has been prior to the development of sociology. This concept was then recognised as
public health i the area of social health, and community medicine. In this article the author
has been successful in linking the social determinates and well-being of people according to
the specifications of the biomedical model. The amalgamation of the ideas of social well-
being and illness has been constructed on the biomedical model which assumes that there is a
specific cause behind every ailment which affects humans in a predictable and uniform way.
It involves the mechanical view of the body which is considered to be made up of various
interrelated parts like the circulatory and the skeletal system. He has highlighted the
Cartesian dualism which believes that the influence behind the scientific discoveries like
organs which have eventually endorsed particular beliefs in the separation of the soul and the
body. This dilemma between the mind and the body has been termed as the mind body
dualism. Thus the author pinpoints the relation of the principle of Cartesian dualism with
biomedical model where a particular diseases has been located in the body and been linked to
the mental state which has been considered as unimportant. This theory and concept has been
contradicted as well as supported by many authors. According to Mtahews (2017), the origins
of dualism has been important as it plays an important role in highlighting the historical
forms of the politics involving gender. Escaping from the dualist mind-set would involve
countering the various theories of dualism and tendencies which are inherent in theory.
Halfon et al (2014) have focused on the biophyschosocial models of health which has been
instrumental for the variation in factors influencing health which has replaced the simplified
models of diseases causation. He has supported the author’s concept of the biomedical model
to be different from models of life course health development as they have emerged from
behavioural, biological and social science disciplines. According to the various concepts of
lifestyle as well as nutritional strategies have been formulated for a more holistic approach
according to the principles stated by the biomedical model.