Comparison of Biomedical and Psychosocial Models in Health and Illness

Introduction To Health And
Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
What are the differences or similarities between them...............................................................3
How does the biomedical model deal with health and illness....................................................4
How does the psychosocial model deal with health and illness..................................................4
How the medical model constructs disability as due impairment & solution to 'fixing'
problem- how this relates to type of care and support given......................................................5
How the psychosocial model constructs disability as due society and solution to 'fixing'
problem- how this relates to type of care and support given......................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Health & social care refers an industry with group of medical professional to conduct
clinical practices for providing care facilities to people. It includes their efforts and different
procedures or activities that are carry out or making an individual well-being (Farre and Rapley,
2017). However, it consist various specialised professionals like nurse, specialist, psychologist,
surgeon, pathologist and many more. In context of this essay, it will focus comparison and
contrast among psychosocial & biomedical models in health as well as illness. It will also
include way of both models to deal with health & illness among with similarities or differences
between them.
MAIN BODY
What are the differences or similarities between them.
Biomedical model can be described as an effective framework which states about
situation of an individual with complete absence of any disease, pain and defect. It is responsible
for considering the entire human body condition which do not have any kind of minor or major
health problem. However, this model provide views that largest threats in relation to healthy life
are observed to be viral and bacterial ailments in pure manner including influenza, diarrhoea and
tuberculosis. This framework perform to eliminate the sickness through evaluating pathology of
particular health problem. Initially, biomedical model focus on illness but not on health and only
looks for single cause by avoiding contributory factors. However, it describe specific disease by