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Beschreibung
Mindmap von Emma Lamont, aktualisiert more than 1 year ago
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Erstellt von Emma Lamont
vor mehr als 11 Jahre
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Biomedical Model
- Used by physicians to
diagnose disease
- Considers
Health to be
the absence
of disease
pain or defect
- Focuses purely on
physical and biological
causes of diseases
- Curative approach - Main
function to offer remedy and
cure with medical intervention
- Searches for biological
causes of pathological
symptoms
- Each disease
has a specific
causal agent
- Biomedicine - Also referred to as
'Allopathy, conventional medicine
or modern western scientific
medicine
- Disadvantage: Approach is limited as it
doesn't take into account
psychological,
environmental or social
influences
- Does not consider the fact that individual
differences (personality, cognition, social
support, cultural beliefs) cause people to
respond differently to underlying diseases
- Does not consider the fact that individual
differences (personality, cognition, social
support, cultural beliefs) cause people to
respond differently to underlying diseases
- Reductionist Approach - Believes that
mind, body & behaviour can all be
reduced to biochemical activity
- Advantage: Broadly applied in most countries
- Identifies, treats and attempts to restore health
- Disadvantages: Very
Costly
- Disadvantage: Does not focus
on prevention of Health
- Dualist Approach - Mind and
bodywork separately and disease
arises from cellular and
physiological processes
- Individual is not responsible for their health
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