Articles Tagged ‘medical application’
BioPsychoSocial Health | By February 15, 2006 | By Shaheen E Lakhan, MS, MEd, PhD, MD | 16 Comments
The Biopsychosocial Model of Health & Illness
Health is traditionally equated to the absence of disease. A lack of a fundamental pathology was thought to define one’s health as good, whereas biologically driven pathogens and conditions would render an individual with poor health and the label “diseased”. However, such a narrow scope on health limited our understanding of wellbeing, thwarted our treatments efforts, and perhaps more importantly, suppressed prevention measures.
Many institutions and medical doctors have managed to incorporate a holistic view of health in sound medical application, primarily based on the Biopsychosocial (BPS) Model of Health and Illness. Read more →
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