Application of Different Models in Health and Social Care

This presentation provides an overview of different health models used in health and social care, including the biomedical, holistic, social, biopsychosocial, and empowerment models. Each model is described with its advantages and disadvantages. The biomedical model focuses on biological aspects, while the holistic model considers the whole person and their environment. The social model addresses socioeconomic and environmental determinants of health, and the biopsychosocial model integrates biological, psychological, and social factors. The empowerment model aims to give individuals greater control over their health decisions. The presentation concludes by suggesting the use of the social model in practice due to its focus on maximizing wellbeing by addressing social and environmental factors. Desklib offers a platform for students to access similar solved assignments and past papers.

MODELS IN HEALTH
AND SOCIAL

INTRODUCTION
Health belief model are known as psychological model which attempts to clarify and
predict health behaviour. There are different types of health models and theories which
supports the practice of health promotion and disease prevention. Basically, this
models and theories used for planning and understanding and explaining health
behaviour. There are different health models and their advantage and disadvantages
are covered in the presentation

DIFFERENT MODELS IN HEALTH AND
SOCIAL CARE
• Biomedical
• Holistic
• Social
• Biopsychosocial
• Empowerment

BIOMEDICAL MODEL
Biomedical model focus on the biological and physical aspects of disease and illness.
It is known as medical model that provide care practices by health care professionals.

ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE OF
BIOMEDICAL MODEL
Advantage
• It encourages do to investigation on illness instead of assuming that nothing can be done.
• The information related to the causes of illness help in avoiding diseases.
• Through research there are successful treatment has been done
Disadvantage
• It avoids the view that health and illness are socially constructed and related to each other
• More focus is on treatment instead of prevention
• Provide power to medical professionals.

HOLISTIC MODEL
Holistic health model is actually an approach
of life it does not focus on illness or specific
part of body. But it focusses on whole person
and the way they interact with his or her
environment.

ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE OF
HOLISTIC MODEL
Advantage
• It focuses on the root causes of the diseases
and the goal is to eliminate the disease
through motivating person to strive for living
a health life.
Disadvantage
• There is lack of research in holistic model
• The most serious issue facing holistic
medicine is that complementary medicines
can compromise health when combined with
traditional treatments

SOCIAL MODEL
It is conceptual framework within which improvement in health and wellbeing is
accomplished through directing efforts toward addressing the social economic and
environmental determinants of health.

ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE OF
SOCIAL MODEL
Advantage
• It provides education to people so that they can prevent themselves from diseases
• Less costly in preventing the disease.
• Encourage individual for taking a responsibility and live healthier life.
Disadvantage
• To change lifestyle is very hard
• All disease cannot be prevented
• People may not get motivated because of smoking, overweight

ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE OF
BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL
Advantage
• Biopsychosocial model state that there are three factors which influence health, healthcare and
disease that are social, psychological and physiological.
• This model takes care of both the micro and macro viewpoints into consideration at the time of
analysing a patient.
• It can cure, recover and good health is in the hand of medical experts and partly in control of
patient.
Disadvantage
• Despite intensive efforts it is very difficult to teach this model to psychiatry student
• For the new user this model can be confusing and mislead the use of correct and appropriate
model

BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL
It is tool that physiologist used to examine the way physiological disorder developed. It
incorporates interaction between biological, psychological and social factors which help in
determining the reason individual suffer from a disorder.

EMPOWERMENT MODEL
Empowerment is known as the process with the help of which people gain greater
control on decisions and actions that affect health. Encouraging adaptation to a given
environment empowers and involves the person in need of care and helps them to
develop skills in their own health promotion