ALH1PAL Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Safe Sex, Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion, Health Professional
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Health model: conceptual frameworks or ways of thinking about health. Focuses on the physical or biological aspects of disease and illness. It is a medical model of care practised by doctors and/or health professional and is associated with the diagnosis, cure and treatment of disease. Evolving for many years leading to improvements in medical science, technology, increases in cures and treatments. Emphasis on diagnosis and treating individuals separately from their lifestyle/living conditions - focuses on disease, illness or disability and attempts to cure/return the physical health of the person to a pre-illness state. Bio = living organism, medical = science of diagnosing-curing disease. Dr"s and hospitals are the real focus of medicine/health. Expectation that doctors will be able to fix the condition and the patient will take on a passive role. *** medical intervention with a fix it approach. Advantages: creates medical advances, advances in technology and research, common problems effectively treated, extends life expectancy, improves quality of life.
