Comparison of Medical and Social Models in Person Centered Practice

P1 A comparison between medical and
social models which are applied to person
centered practice in the sector of health,
care or support services
Personal health care in health care is
a situation where the patient himself
participate in the treatment and cooperate
with his level best with the professional of
health. In this the patient willingness to get
better early is high and he himself takes
many initiatives to get better and good with
regard to his health life. The suggestions
and cooperation from patient close relatives
are also includes in person centered health
care practices. The professional people takes
the necessary suggestions and consultation
from the family and the patient before going
for any kind of treatment (Hendriks and et
al., 2016). The professional healthcare
worker also perform good planning,
monitoring, directing and controlling of
activities about the treatments which will be
taken for the patient. The treatment and care
is provided to the patient by keeping his
views, needs, demand or desire in mind. The
models which could get applied to this
person centered practice and some of these
model can be as:
Medical model:
 Law, regulations and
practices: In the medical care,
the professional health care
provider has to perform his
practice or code of conduct
under the scope of boundaries of
the stated activities only. The
professional health worker must
perform this activities in the
ethical way only. These activities
of worker or health take care
person should not offend to the
patient. The unethical activities
may include harassment, bad
vocal behavior, giving the wrong
advice and treatment to the
patient and the like.
 Practice the guidance for
health and safety: There are
guidelines which are stated under
health and social care. It major
purpose of these guidance is to
deliver the good services to the
patients and make sure of their
safety and hygiene level.
Through the right practice of
these safety and health measures
the quality of services provided
by professional worker gets
better and a good treatment gets
delivered to the patients (Morin,
2016).
 Professional code of conduct: The
health professional person must
undertakes his behavior and practice
in the particular code of conduct.
Every profession has some kind of
conduct which he needs to follow in
his profession so the activities and
behavior should be under that
defined code of conduct.
 Professional relationship with
patients: The professional health
care provider should build up a good
relation with the patients. He is not
suppose of be so indifferent towards
their treatment and whereas he is
also not suppose to be so close with
them. A line of professionalism must
exists in between the worker and
patients.
 Encourage the diversity: The
professional worker must encourage
the concept of diversity in his office
or workplace. He must hire the
people belonging from different
background or culture. Also the
professional worker should not do