11. The Biopsychosocial Model: Why do college students get sick? HEALTH BIO PSYCHO SOCIAL personality emotions social conflict social support immune reaction to virus previous exposure to virus health behaviors
These fields are subspecialties of internal medicine and thus require an additional fellowship of 2-3 years’ duration in order to practice.
Introduce the biomedical model as an extension of the biomedical definition of health given earlier. Modern medicine has looked to two explanations for disease: exposure to infectious agents, i.e. tuberculosis, and changes in physical systems, such as the changes to blood vessels that increase risk for heart disease. Move into thought experiment…..(next slide)
Imagine that I release a large quantity of cold virus into the ventilation system of the room, enough to guarantee that everyone in this room is exposed to the virus. Not everyone will develop symptoms – why not? Discuss each of these briefly, in terms of the their effects on the immune system in handling infections.
Use multiple languages in a room metaphor to compare biomedical and biopsychosocial models.
Use multiple languages in a room metaphor to compare biomedical and biopsychosocial models.
Case reports and below are considered clinically relevant but of lower quality that the above layers. So they make good background resources
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