Biomedical Model

Question 0

What does the biomedical model say health is?

Answer 0

Health constitutes freedom from disease, pain or defect thus making the normal human condition “healthy”

Question 1

What is the Biomedical Model?

Answer 1

• Focuses on just the physical process of disease such as pathology, biochemistry and physiology and sees illness as a mechanical malfunction
• Doesnt take into account social factors or individual subjectivity

Question 2

Emphasis on:

Answer 2

• Risk
• Risk Reduction
• Illness
• Women = Passive