Discuss The Biomedical And Socio-Medical Model Of Health

M1- Asses the biomedical and socio-medical models of health.
Introduction-
In this essay I am assessing the socio and medical models of health and to what it implies. The socio- medical model of health focuses on the social factors that contribute to health and wellbeing in society. When this model considers social factors, it particularly looks at the impact of poverty, poor housing, diet and pollution. E.g. poor housing and poverty are causes to respiratory problems, and in response to these causes origins of ill health, the socio-medical model is aimed to encourage society to include better housing and introduce programmes to tackle poverty as a solution. The biomedical model of health looks at individuals physical functioning and describes bad health and illness as the assumption of disease and
I am also looking at how mortality and morbidity rates come under these two models of health and how they affect them. I am also looking at the aspects of health i.e. the positive/negatives and the holistic approach to ill health, the negative definition of health although this is called the 'negative definition ' it doesn 't mean that the person enquiring about it is being negative. It simply means that when they say 'healthy ' they mean free from illness, upset, tiredness, or anything else that might be a symptom of not being in good health. The positive definition of health, when people talk about health in this way they have in mind a much more active type of personality. This type of person is more likely to do physical exercise and be completely fit. The 'positive definition ' is used when people look at