Contextual Approaches in Health: Understanding the Impact of Environment on Health

INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
REPORT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS................................................................................................................2
INTRODUTION..............................................................................................................................1
ESSAY.............................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUTION
Development Science refers to the fresh synthesis which is generated for guiding the
research in psychological, social and the bio behavioural disciplines. It also describes the
orientation to link concepts and the findings in the hitherto disparate areas of the developmental
inquiry. It emphasises over dynamic interplay of the processes across different time frames,
context and analysis levels. Time frame employed is related to lifetime of phenomenon to
understand. Units for focus could be shorter as the milliseconds and longer as the decades.
Individual functioning in the perspective is viewed at multiple levels.
Developmental science aims at representing very best of the contemporary scientific
development psychology and the development cognitive neuroscience, for both reporting of new
data and in presentation of the theory. It is the field which synthesises the perspectives from
psychology, biology and the sociology for understanding the behavioural as well as
psychological aspect related to human development. Essay is focused over using range of
contemporary empirical work critically reflecting over the validity of the contextualist
approaches as the identifying factors over health.
ESSAY
Contextual approaches are proposed as the alternative for reductive psychodynamic
assessment. This is based over principle that the behaviour occurs within the specific contexts.
Contextual perspective consider relationship between the individuals and cognitive, physical and
the social world. It examines the socio cultural and the environmental influences over
development. It is seen at the first glance that illness and health are understood clearly. At the
closer inspection it could be observed that many of the preconceived ideas, prejudices and the
opinions underpinning the ideas are apparent. WHO defined health as the state of complete
mental, physical and social well being, not merely absence of the infirmity or disease (Banasiak,
and et.al., 2020).
There are various contextual factors that are been related to physical and emotional well
being of an individual. It has been analysed that a person’s physical health is shaped not only by
individual-level factors such as inherited biological propensities, but also by socio-cultural-level
factors, such as cultural norms, learned behaviours, and interactions with the human-built
environment. It has also been analysed that there are various social, cultural and environmental
factors that can affect the well-being of individual. The people who have severe disease can have
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smaller life expectancy, for this they need to be involved in making sure that they have been
involved in adopting the healthy life habits so that their quality of life improves.
It has also been analysed that there are various health promotion programs that has been
adopted by government in order to cure physical illness and improving health outcome of
individual. It has also been analysed that the health care professionals are been involved in
improving the structural barriers to care for people who have been suffering from physical
illness. It has also been evaluated that the factors which are been responsible for developing
physical problem includes changing life style habits so that health outcome can be improved.
The other factor like the income and educational level of the individual also determines their
physical and mental health process (Contextual Factors in health and illness, 2019). Research
has provided the details that people having low knowledge related to disease suffers more from it
as they do not have the ability to analyse the early signs and symptoms of disease. It has also
been analysed that there are other social determinants which can lay impact on physical fitness
and health aspects of patients. It has also been analysed that people who are living in poor
conditions also suffer fromphysical health related problems as they do not have access to proper
treatment.
Adedokun, Uthman, Adekanmbi, & Wiysonge, (2017) established that, Contextualism, also
referred to as anepistemic contextualism, where the views of the family in philosophy mainly
emphasize the key context where an utterance, action or expression tends to occur. The
contextual in turn is mainly linked with the causal factors which is mainly associated with the
illness and health of the individual person. The individual factors associated with the genetic
make-up of the individual person is considered to be highly significant. It is significant in
effectively managing the core phenomenon and helps in indicating the key details associated
with the situation. The world health Organization tends to effectively define health as “a state of
the mental, physical and social wellbeingof the individual person. There are wide set of variants
associated with the health and illness. These factors mainly comprise of the specific community,
group, individual and society. Moreover, diet, age, gender, heredity, self- esteem, genetics are
considered to be as the key contextual factors which in turn are the key prominent factors
associated with the health. Spicer & et.al. (2016) examined the fact that, developmental science
is considered to be as the fresh synthesis which is generated for effectively guiding the research
within psychological, social and also the biological behavioural disciplines. Time frame
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