4.mental health and phsycial health-chronic physical illness can affect mental health vice reversa Flashcards
assumption of biomedical model
health=absence of diseas
patient not responsible for illness
treatment=medical intervention to change phyhical body
illness may have psychological consequences but not physical causes
biopsychosocial model assumptions
-health=state of complete psychal, menatl and social well being
-people can influence own health
-treatment=medical,psychological and social interventiosnrequired
-illness may have psychological consequences and psychological causes
socialogical factors-social factors
micro level- interaction (individual)
macro level-larger eg (industrialisation_workload increase)
mind and body example
someone back pain
who work load increases is socilogical
causing psychological effects like-low mood
when diagnosed- less guilty and go to job