Models Of Medicine Flashcards
What are the two types of medical models?
Biomedical
Biopsychosocial
Describe the biomedical model
What kind of treatment does it involve?
- understanding illness in biological and physiological processes
- surgery
What type of medical model is ‘narrow’?
Why?
Biomedical
Ignores psychological and social factors
In the biomedical and biopsychosocial models what is responsible for health?
Biological factors
Patient, doctor, public health England
Define public health
The art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organised effects of society
Define health life expectancy
Years of ‘good health’
What does PICO stand for?
What is it used for?
Patient
Intervention
Comparison
Outcome
To formulate a question
What is the inverse care law?
That the availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need of the population served
What does agency mean in relation to sick role?
The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices
