Comparison of Psychological and Biomedical Models of Health and Illness

INTRODUCTION TO
HEALTH AND SOCIAL
CARE
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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Compare and contrast between psychological and biomedical models of health and illness......3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Health and social care are established in order to provide various social services to
individual for better health and safety of people living in the society. This report is an essay on
comparison and contrast psychological and biomedical model of health and illness. It aim is to
explains importance of health and social care in uplifting living standard of people and economic
development of country.
Compare and contrast between psychological and biomedical models of health and illness
Bio medical model of health and illness is a scientific method that is used to measure
health and various related diseases due to biological reason. Therefore such people can be treated
and handled through independent and positive thinking or external consideration. Treatment of
individual need to be taken at good environment where all technologies are available under
expert and special professional that have high knowledge and skill for better health and safety of
people. As per biomedical model illness is what is experienced by patients at the time of
breakdown or it is state that describe person is not thinking and feeling well (Alston and Bowles,
2019). Whereas diseases are abnormality with body and its part that is treated by doctors thus
professional that have high knowledge and skill need to take care of such people. Biomedical
model explains that ill health of individual is due to biological factors and choices of lifestyle
such as unhealthy diets, smoking and lack of exercise. Thus doctor while using biomedical
model analysis and evaluates various biological reason behind particular diseases and doctors
treat the patient through external measures and independent of their mind. In western countries
biomedical model is treated as modern way for health care professional in order to treat various
conditions and diagnose. People that have fit physical, mental and social healthy are termed as
health people as they can perform various activities with lot of energy. It stated that person need
to be provide better environment, hygiene condition, proper nutrition and food products in order
to ensure health and safety of people. Biomedical method has changed policies, procedure and
practice of NHS that was defined by health care services thereby replaced traditional method to
treat people (Jumaa and Alleyne, 2017). Many of practitioners are provide training that
biomedical model is an appropriate and suitable method to treat sick bodies. Therefore it can be
illustrated from above definition of Biomedical that it is one of the effective method to enhance
and improve health of individual.
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