PSYC203 Lecture Notes - Operationalization, Dsm-5, Paternalism
27 Oct 2013
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Medications only work if they are taken. Suboptimal dosage of required medications can lead to: waste of products, worsening health status, need for more appointments or more intense treatments, premature death. Taking medications exactly as prescribed: that is what you should do exactly. In the healthcare setting: the degree to which a patient complies with or follows explicitly the expert treatment recommendations of a health professional. No compliance can be: unintentional, purposeful. The term compliance reinforces a power differential: the physician alone makes the treatment decision, while the passive and dependent patient is obliged to comply, referred to as paternalism. The paternalistic model of healthcare: healthcare interactions can be modelled as follows. The healthcare professional make a treatment decision based on this assessment. The patient collects the prescription (or not) The patient then complies (or not: the patient is being treated like a child.
