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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Biomedical model"”.
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A Biopsychosocial Approach to Persistent Postpartum Pain and Postpartum Sexual Function
… there has been a push for a maternal-focused model of postpartum care; however, this model of care tends to focus on postpartum depression. Two issues that are related to postpartum depression but may go unaddressed by health-care professionals are persistent postpartum pain (PPP) and …
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The Role of Psychologists in Primary Care: An Integrative Curriculum
… a positive step toward achieving a comprehensive model of patient care. The biopsychosocial model is suggested to supplant the current biomedical model for health and wellness conceptualization. Psychologists are trained in the dynamic interplay between biological, psychological, and social …
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Illness models of relatives of African psychiatric patients : implications for a family-based service
This study explores the illness models and service requests of relatives of 30 African psychiatric patients. Relatives' perceptions of illness and expressed needs were elicited with a view to developing a more contextual understanding of disorder, and to obtaining an indication of interest in …
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Examining complex diabetes and patient illness experiences: utilizing syndemic and health capabilities approach
… accompany complex diabetes. Compared to the biomedical model, this study uses a syndemic and health capabilities approach. The purpose of this study was to explore how social factors shape the health of those who experience complex diabetes, and the perceived challenges these individuals …
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Female migrant farmworkers: The meaning of health within the culture of transience
… description of health than the traditional biomedical model used by nurses and other health care workers. This broad definition has implications for further research into the culture of transience and the development of health policies for transient populations.
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Psychotropic Medications and Children: Perceptions of Mental Health Professionals
… and institutional pressures to practice within a biomedical model of care. This thesis suggests that the supremacy of biomedicine has changed the conversation of mental health so drastically over the past forty years that psychological and social factors are no longer being legitimately considered …
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Being positive: women living with HIV and AIDS in British Columbia
… is provided through a critical review of the biomedical model, as well as biomedical and community organizing perspectives on women and AIDS. Mostly verbatim accounts drawn from taped interviews conducted with the five women describes their lives with HIV and AIDS. Experiences surrounding …
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Passages : a hospice for New York City
… death and dying, a reaction to the existing biomedical model of care. Hospice has put a humane focus on dying by creating a setting where pain is managed allowing the patient to move onto the hard work of dying, the psychological and spiritual dimension of the process. While the philosophical …
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An exploration of the significant issues at work for people with a diagnosed mental health issue, from the perspective of individuals and line managers.
… this was impeded by organisational demands. The biomedical model also influenced the narratives, The thesis contributes to theory by developing a substantive theory of key issues and enabling features for individuals with mental health issues at work and a detailed research agenda.
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Seeking connectedness post-stroke: an existential perspective on lived experiences of working-age men using grounded theory
… having stroke at a younger age than women. The biomedical model is crucial for stroke survival. However, psychosocial factors in determining progress with rehabilitation have been increasingly recognised, along with stroke literature pointing towards the (less widely acknowledged) significance …
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Grounding in groundlessness, being the change: an existential phenomenological exploration into the embodied experience of postmenopause
… yet the prevailing narrative follows a biomedical model which understands the ageing body as a failing organism. Using the definition of standard menopause as a common ground, this qualitative study explores the embodied experience of postmenopause among diverse UK-based participants …
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Exploring the experiences and understandings of psychosis through relationships with family members, mental health services, and society
… and controversies and issues surrounding the biomedical model and its impact on families. Methodological challenges associated with this research were also discussed.
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O enfermeiro e a assistência a necessidade não física do cliente: o significado do fazer
… considering their actions of care, it is in the biomedical model that their beddings are grounded. I center this study about the nonphysical care – thus called to point out the care that does not involve normative and technician procedures, but that one that emerges during the accomplishment of …
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Conceptualising differentiated forms of knowledge : the Medical (MBChB) curriculum of the University of Cape Town
… learning programme, and the traditional biomedical model was replaced by a bio-psychosocial model, unofficially referred to as a bio-psychosocial / spiritual model by the staff. The change to the curriculum necessitated a lengthy process of planning and design, implementation, and …
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The observing self as a catalyst for behaviour change and wellbeing: Effective personal informatics system design to promote behaviour change in the changing health paradigm
… health paradigm. Until recently, the Western biomedical model with its disease focus has been effective in delivering health care; however, this paradigm does not efficiently support a system in crises - the contemporary health care system which is confronted with complex challenges of modern …
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Socioenvironmental and demographic modifiers of aging in nonhuman animals
… (i.e., DNA methylation) levels, in a key biomedical model organism (rhesus macaques). I found that 4% of genes and 13% of CpG sites were significantly associated with exposure to a major hurricane and that post-hurricane differential expression and methylation were associated with …
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Preparing Mental Health Professionals for Work in Collaborative Care Settings
… illness are conceptualized. In decades past, the biomedical model predominated. Factors other than biological were not seen as important with regard to the diagnosis and treatment of illness; mind and body were viewed as separate. Engel’s 1977 article challenged the biomedical perspective with the …
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Dementia within the Marital Sphere - Discourse, Power & Knowledge
… others. It explored how dementia has generated biomedical, neuro, psychological, pharmaceutical, technological, charitable and academic forces that in turn, produce and maintain the power of these forces, plus the dominant biomedical model of dementia. It also examined the role of family and …
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Exploring caregiver perspectives of adults with Severe and Profound and multiple Learning Disabilities Accessing Sedentary Hydrotherapy (SPLASH Study).
… (e.g. Cerebral Palsy/stroke), has centred on the biomedical-model of disability, highlighting a need for exploratory and biopsychosocial research (combining biomedical with psychosocial factors: e.g. wellbeing, support/care needs). Aim: Exploring caregiver perspectives of adults with Severe and …
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No sovereign remedy: distress, madness, and mental health care in Guyana
… disorder”, which reference the dominant, Western biomedical model of psychiatry. Instead, participants revealed how mental distress is expressed through an array of perceived explanatory models: biomedical; socio-economic/structural; (inter)personal; and supernatural. A major point of consensus …
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