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1.) Compare and contrast the biopsychosocial and biomedical models. Include the advantages of the biopsychosocial model over the biomedical model ***Biopsychosocial Model*** -view point that health and other behaviors are determined by the interaction of biological, psychological, and social factor...

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1.) Compare and contrast the biopsychosocial and biomedical models. Include the
advantages of the biopsychosocial model over the biomedical model
✅***Biopsychosocial Model***
-view point that health and other behaviors are determined by the interaction of
biological, psychological, and social factors
○ Focuses on the system
○ A person who is free of disease may not actually be healthy.
○ The mind and body are intertwined
Advantages:
■ Deals with macro level and micro level processes
■ Notes multiple factors involved in health and illness
■ Looks at the bigger picture
■ Treats chronic diseases, which are central to our everyday lives today

***Biomedical Model***
-dominant view of the twentieth-century that maintains that illness always has a physical
cause
○ Focuses on illness
○ Mind and body are separate entities (mind-body dualism)
○ All illnesses can be explained on the basis of somatic
processes
○ Ignores psychological and social processes
○ sees health as a machine
○ Emphasises disease and dysfunction
-Disadvantage:
● only focuses on biological aspect of health and illness

Both
○Deal with the biological aspect of health and how we get sick

2.) Explain how changing patterns of illness have contributed to the rise in biobehavior
health/health psychology. ✅-People are living longer because of new developments in
biobehavioralhealth and health psychology
-When people live longer, it changes the patterns of illness
-People used to die from acute diseases such as bacterial and viral diseases
-Now, people die from more chronic diseases such as cancer
-The longer people live, the more advancements we make in biobehavioral health and
psychology
-People now make more money and can afford the medical care they need so they live
longer
-With technology, chronic illnesses can most often be managed

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