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An introduction to health and social care: Assignment

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An introduction to health and social care: Assignment

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INTRODUCTION TOHEALTH & SOCIALCARE
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Compare and Contrast the psychosocial and biochemical models of health & illness...............1CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................5.........................................................................................................................................................5
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INTRODUCTIONHealth Belief Model is one of the psychological model that was developed for explainingand predicting health behaviours. The Health Belief Model was developed by socialpsychologists, Hochbaum, Kegels, Rosenstock while working in the U.S Public Health Services.Psychosocial health deals with the state of mental, emotional, social and spiritual well-being. Thebio psychosocial model helps in understanding the health and illness by addressing biological,psychological and social factors (Ell, 2018). Biomedical models of health deals with thephysical and biological aspects of illness and disease. Biomedical model of health purely focuseson the biological factors and it excludes psychological, environmental as well as socialinfluences. It is considered as one of the leading modern method for healthcare professionals inorder to diagnose and treat any health and illness condition is most of western countries.Biomedical risk factors are stated through physically and are often influence by behavioural riskfactors. This report is totally based on the compare and contrast of the psychosocial andbiochemical models of health& illness.Keywords: Psychosocial, biochemical, models, health.Compare and Contrast the psychosocial and biochemical models of health & illnessPsychosocial health is overall related with the combination of psychological and socialbehaviour. With the help of bio psychosocial model it becomes easy to understand the health andillness by proper analysis and addressing of biological, psychology and social factors. Biopsychosocial model was first time proposed by the George L. Engel in 1977 in order to betterreflect the development of health and illness through the complex interaction of biological,psychological factors and social factors. Psychosocial model helps in development of blueprintfor research design to develop and implement an action in the real world of health care.Psychological model has vast application scope and has been applied across various fields ofhealthcare which mainly involves pain, diabetes, sleepwalking, gambling, hypothyroidism andmental brain related issues (Aldwin et.al, 2017). In today's world, human are undergoing various life and environmental changes due towhich human brain and it function also changes. An individual person's environment and geneticmake up is somewhere are interacted with each other and will create a profound effect on mentalhealth, brain functions and biological health. To understand the someone's mental health it is1
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