As society has evolved so has it’s understanding of health. For many years health was lead by the medical society, where the biomedical model of health was used to define health. Overtime, society began to further understand health and the importance of a new emerging model, the social model of health. Both models of health hold different meanings as to what it means to be healthy. The biomedical focuses on an individual’s physical health, while the social model focuses on society’s health and prevention of illness. With each model having different views on health, a health issue when analyzed will differ depending on which model of health is used. The Article ‘I lost 100 pounds and overcame my depression’ which, appeared in Women’s Health
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This model is not concerned with the community but rather the individual being diagnosed and treated (Germov, 2014, p. 11). The Biomedical model of health views the mind and body as separate, believing that disease and illness is due to physiological processes of the body being disrupted (Sarafino & Smith, 2014, p. 6). The idea of the mind and body being separate was popular in the 19th and 20th century, scientists had better equipment, they better understood the human bodies functioning and how individuals contracted diseases (Sarafino & Smith, 2014, p. 6). From this better understanding of science, the biomedical model was born (Sarafino & Smith, 2014, p. 6). The model believes that disease and illness are related to an individual’s body, and does not consider psychological and social factors (Sarafino & Smith, 2014, p. 6). The biomedical model relies heavily on science, where something needs to be observable and measurable, and without these two factors being present it is considered impossible (Yuill et al., 2010, p. 8). There fore, when an individual is sick, it must be observable to result in diagnosis (Yuill et al., 2010, p. …show more content…
The biomedical model views depression as a brain disease (Deacon, 2013). The model aims to discover the causes of depression in a biological sense (Deacon, 2013). The model believes that all mental disorders are brain diseases and caused by abnormalities in the brains make up and functioning, genetics and neurotransmitter imbalances (Deacon, 2013). When individuals present with a mental disorder they are given disease specific medications to combat these imbalances to overcome their brain disease (Deacon, 2013). If the patient were to present with depression, the biomedical model would consider the patient to have a brain disease, where medication would be provided to overcome the disease. The biomedical model looks at health in a scientific sense where all disease and illnesses have a biological
This model is not concerned with the community but rather the individual being diagnosed and treated (Germov, 2014, p. 11). The Biomedical model of health views the mind and body as separate, believing that disease and illness is due to physiological processes of the body being disrupted (Sarafino & Smith, 2014, p. 6). The idea of the mind and body being separate was popular in the 19th and 20th century, scientists had better equipment, they better understood the human bodies functioning and how individuals contracted diseases (Sarafino & Smith, 2014, p. 6). From this better understanding of science, the biomedical model was born (Sarafino & Smith, 2014, p. 6). The model believes that disease and illness are related to an individual’s body, and does not consider psychological and social factors (Sarafino & Smith, 2014, p. 6). The biomedical model relies heavily on science, where something needs to be observable and measurable, and without these two factors being present it is considered impossible (Yuill et al., 2010, p. 8). There fore, when an individual is sick, it must be observable to result in diagnosis (Yuill et al., 2010, p. …show more content…
The biomedical model views depression as a brain disease (Deacon, 2013). The model aims to discover the causes of depression in a biological sense (Deacon, 2013). The model believes that all mental disorders are brain diseases and caused by abnormalities in the brains make up and functioning, genetics and neurotransmitter imbalances (Deacon, 2013). When individuals present with a mental disorder they are given disease specific medications to combat these imbalances to overcome their brain disease (Deacon, 2013). If the patient were to present with depression, the biomedical model would consider the patient to have a brain disease, where medication would be provided to overcome the disease. The biomedical model looks at health in a scientific sense where all disease and illnesses have a biological