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Psychosocial Factors and Health
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Running head: PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS AND HEALTHPSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS AND HEALTHName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
1PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS AND HEALTHIntroduction:In the present generation, the subject of social epidemiology has gained importance in thehealthcare industry. The recent shift of treatment approach from the biomedical model oftreatment to that of the bio-psycho-social model of treatment has been the main driving force forthe application of the subject in health research. Until few years back, healthcare professionalsmainly adopted biomedical model of care to develop treatment plan the patients. Here thetreatment interventions were only planned focusing mainly on the symptoms so that the patientcan overcome the physical disorders. However, in the past decade, biomedical model of care isseverely criticised by the researchers as they believe that it results in half hearted treatment andcare for the patients. Present day professionals are advised to follow the bio-psycho-social modelof care. This model of care not only looks on the biological determinant of health but also takesin consideration of the social as well as psychological determinants of health (Wilkinson andPickett 2010). This is mainly because all these types of determinants can affect the life equallyand therefore only caring about biological determinants may not ensure better quality lives ofpatients. In the case study, Jim is seen to be severely affected by poor psychological factors thathad a massive impact on his health and well-being. The different psychological factors would bediscussed in details to understand their impact on the health as well as on healthy aging. The relationship between unemployment as well as poor health has been seen to bepositively correlated with the occurrence of ill health as well as poor quality life. Unemployedindividuals are mainly seen to have higher levels of impaired mental health. This includesdepression, anxiety, stress as well as higher levels of mental health hospital admissions. They arealso seen to suffer from different types of physical and chronic disorders like hypertensions,musco-skeletal disorder as well as cardiovascular disorders. Researchers have conducted studies
2PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS AND HEALTHwhere they have seen that depression and unemployment are not only correlated but that thehigher levels of depression are indeed the result of the unemployment (Jasper 2013). One of themost interest finding of the study has revealed that all unemployed individuals with either less orgreater than one year of employment had reported significantly worse perceived mental healthscores. When the researchers had taken income, age, gender, education as the differentcovariates, it was seen that individuals who were unemployed for more than one year hadsignificantly worse scores on mental health. This study has therefore revealed that there is aninterconnection between the work status of an individual and that of mental health. This hashelped to understand that individuals indeed attach at least some of their self-worth to beingproductive as well as working members of the society (Levi et al. 2011). One of the mostsignificant effects of unemployment is that it results in development of depression and anxietyamong the patients. Such mental health conditions affect the quality of lives of individualsresulting them to suffer hugely in their personal lives. In the case study as well, it can be seenthat Jim had remained unemployed for more than 30 years without involving himself into nayproductivity activity throughout the years to engage in societal contributions. Therefore, Jim canbe considered to be suffering from depression throughout the years where he might have notbeing able to feel productive to the society and might have felt worthless as an individual. Suchfeelings might have affected his self-esteem and self-confidence that had in turn made himsuffers from different substance abuse disorders. When researchers wanted to examine the mainreason for the occurrence of depression due to unemployment, a number of rationales came up inthe studies. One of the participants in the study was seen to state boredom to be the main reasonfor depression while on the other hand there were many individuals who stated thatstigmatisation, feeling of rejection and worthlessness were the main reason that would result in
3PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS AND HEALTHdevelopment of depression. Many of the participants stated that they felt depressed about howpeople judged and were worried about future. Therefore, Jim is also expected to have gonethrough severe phases of depression that had made him to live poor quality life.Finances is one of the important aspect that has the huge capacity to affect the quality ofliving of individuals in a society. Lack of finances makes it difficult for the individuals to livehealthily both mentally as well as physically. Unemployment may lead to lack of finance in thefamily that affects different aspects of healthy living. People are seen to fail miserably in eatingwell and buying basic food as well as household items. Not only that, lack of money and povertybrings stress and worries that create huge pressure on the individuals. Many of the participantshad stated that they had to struggle immensely to allocate food for the family and maintain thenecessities. Many of the individuals are often seen to take debts that they cannot return and thatin turn leads to humiliation in the society or legal obligation (Alcock 2006). All these result inpoor mental health condition as well as well-being. Researchers have also found that the poor afinancial condition often makes the individuals to stop themselves from socialising that in turnleads them to social exclusion. This tends to affect the mental health condition making themdevelop depression. Therefore, in case of Jim, it can be stated that lack of employment had madehim deprived of financial power. They did not have money to buy food and this could be wellunderstood from the fact that even his dog had been found wandering in search of food.Moreover, he had also excluded himself socially within his house and were not socialising withanyone for past week. This might be due to lack of finance to buy food and other essentialnecessities of his house (Alcock, Daly and Griggs 2008). Moreover, he might also have the fearof stigmatisation as he had been of low socioeconomic status or many days. Researchers are ofthe opinion that poverty can be described as the condition that is mainly characterised by the
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