With the Lees standing firm on adhering to their culture and they feel that the western medical field lacks proper interaction with patients thus the inability for the Lees to be able to fully trust the doctors. Although seems that fusing dichotomy of illness and disease in the shamanic practice and validating patient’s concerns is rational, to the doctors, they share the ethical values and are driven to do anything to save the lives of their patients. This, in turn, makes them view the Hmong as irrational in not having a person treated based on their symptoms but their souls. Ethnocentrism is being
The BSP is somewhat different from the biomedical model which Doctors in medicine uses as this kind of treatment model focuses more on the physical process as the pathology or the origin of the disease, its biochemistry and its physiological aspects (Wampold, B. (2001). The biomedical model only explains the biological aspect without involving the psychological and social background. Psychological and social aspects are important in determining that the diseases and illness are occurring without effect on both process and outcome of the treatment. Psychological aspect of it plays an important role in determining the prognosis of an individual with disease regardless of the severity of their medical diagnosis (J. W. Drisko and M. D. Grady, 2012).
The Bio-medical model has several assumptions that are accurate; it defines health as a biological normality it also believes that illnesses and disease are caused by an identifiable factor such as a faulty gene or virus. The model believes that illness is a temporary condition producing a physical symptom and that it should be identified and classified by a medical official not a non-expert. It is common for the experts that follow the bio-medical model to focus solely on diagnosing the symptoms of their patient leaving no room for dispute between the doctor and the patient. Illness and disease has cures and treatments usually from removing the cause, medicine is seen as the way to solve health problems, and the health of society is seen as dependant on the state of medical knowledge and the availability of medical resources. The main strengths of the bio-medical model is that it stresses the importance of trying to find the cause of illness and disease; there is a wealth of evidence that support the bio-medical approach, including successful operations, cancer screenings and immunisation programmes.
The medical modal of health is the definition put forward by doctors and health care professionals and could be describe as the official definition. In this model, health is viewed as the ‘absence of disease’ and as ‘functional fitness’. Disease and sickness are explained within a biological frame-work that emphasises the physical nature of disease: in other word, the model of health is biologically reductionist. This definition of disease is based upon medical concepts developed over the last few hundred years, presented as the truth about how the body functions correctly, it assumes a state of health unless symptoms emerge that demonstrate a deviance of normality. It is also important to recognise that the concept of health is relative.
SOCIOLOGY: HEALTH AND INEQUALITY For our society to develop an understanding of health and how to improve it, we first have to define health and what it is to be healthy. There are many factors that influence our definition of health, the four main ones that influence lay definitions are age, culture, gender and social class. There are also different models of health that professionals use when deciding whether someone is healthy or not. In the western world we use the biomedical model, which scientifically measures someone’s health to decide whether illness is present. Though in other cultures the body and mind co-exist, and an understanding of the body and mental state are looked at together.
M1 the biomedical and socio-medical model of health In this assignment I will be assessing the two models of health which are the biomedical model and socio-medical model, and then I will relate to the case study in P2. First of all in health and social care there are two main models of health which are the biomedical and socio-medical model of health. The models of health helps us to explaining what is classified as illness in the modern society however, each model has its own approaches to health issues. Biomedical model The biomedical model focuses on the structure and functioning of the body based on the Western scientific approach to medicine, this approach of health relates well to the policies and practice of the National Health Service (NHS). The Western scientific approach to medicine bases on these main features, focusing on the abnormalities in the body, biological factors explain the illness, it examines the cause of ill health through observations and tests, trained health professionals are the ones able to identify and treat the illness, emphasising different treatments medications and other interventions.
hakim P2. Explain different sociological approaches to health and well being 1. There are different sociological approaches to health and well being such as: ● ● the biomedical approach the socio-medical approach The biomedical approach to health and well being is a way of looking at a person’s health as something which is affected by disease, injury and illness rather than the person’s environment and lifestyle. They exclude all other factors which are not related to the body itself. For example, if a person was showing symptoms of a chest infection, the doctor would listen to their chest and send them for an x-ray to find out what has caused the problem rather than questioning their environment and housing conditions.
2. Doctors: Upon researching if China doctors had any oath to adhere to, I found the following: According to One-Stop (2015), Do Chinese doctors take the Hippocratic Oath? A rough, abridged translation of the oath is: “People entrust their health and lives to us. Hence, I vow to devote myself to medical science and to love my people and country. I vow to abide by medical ethics, to relieve people of the pain of illness, to improve their health and to honor the sanctity of the science.
5) Identification of patterns Identification of patterns refers to the process of identifying the basic disharmony that underlies all clinical manifestations. It can be done by considering the picture formed by all symptoms and signs. Unlike western medicine, Chinese medicine does not look for causes of diseases, instead, patterns behind are deemed more important. For instance, a patient who presents with the pattern of disharmony of Kidney-Yin deficiency never implies the deficiency is the cause of the disease. It is in fact the disharmony underlying the disease.
Insomnia In Chinese Medical Science Hank 宛北辰 12-B In Chinese Medical Science, doctors believe that the human body is composed by five elements, metal, wood, water, fire and earth. Base on this foundation, Chinese traditional doctors discovered that any illnesses, including insomnia and any others, are caused by the unbalance of the five elements. So, in order to cure the illnesses, their job is to balance the five elements (#1) and maintains the equilibrium amount them. In order to achieve that, Chinese doctors invented three different methods, the Yin Wei Therapy, the Viscera Therapy and the Yin Yang Therapy. (#2) This time, I would mainly discuss the Insomnia treatment in the Yin Wei Therapy.