Compare and contrast the psychosocial and biomedical models of health and illness

Introduction to Health
and Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Compare and contrast the psychosocial and the biomedical models of health and illness..........1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The term health and social care is associated to services which are available from medical
institutions. It refers to entire healthcare provision infrastructure to keep people healthy for
longer durations, support outstanding work of medical staff while training employee of
tomorrow and ensuring to remain accountable. It provides help in form of physical along with
emotional support to citizens so that they live happy livings despite of their disabilities
(Papadopoulos, Koulouglioti and Ali, 2018). Objective of present assessment is to explore about
distribution of health along with differential access to healthcare in UK.
For the essay, selected title or topic is “Compare and contrast the psychosocial and
biomedical models of health and illness”.
MAIN BODY
Compare and contrast the psychosocial and the biomedical models of health and illness
As per Felman (2020), The word health is delineated to state of complete physical along
with emotional well-being. It is not merely absence of any infirmity and disease among living
organisms. In other words, it is a resource that provide support to functioning of an individual in
wider society. Similarly, illness is said to particular abnormal situation which negatively impacts
on functioning or structure of organisms parts. It prevents body and brain from working in
normal manner. The concept of health and illness reach far beyond a person as well as could be
critical to measure. There are two models of health and illness that are defined below:
Psychosocial model of health and illness: It is a broader along with integrated approach
to behaviour of people and disease. It says that health psychology is an aggregate of particular
scientific and professional contribution of subject that promotes along with maintains health by
preventing and treating illness. According to the model, a person have responsibility for their
health and illness (Moss, 2017). It reflect towards development of illness with the help of
complex interactions among psychological factors that includes behaviours, personality and
moods. It also shows that problems of a person are all connected and are more complex than
what is imagines previously.
With the help of Psychosocial Model, physicians are able to understand a patient in
whole aspects and examines reciprocal influences of certain factors on health and illness. Within
health and social care of UK, it is generally applied to pain in which various factors that lie
1