The strength and weakness of socio medical model of health care?

Answer 1

biomedicalIts weakness lies in its failure to fully include psychosocial factors which have proven to be powerful co-factors of disease in modern society

The strength of the Biomedical model is its proven success as a roadmap for diagnosis and treatment of a multitude of diseases over the past two centuries

the strength od socio medical

encourages people to live healthy lifestyles

It looks at the cause of the illness and tries to change the factor that causes illness to prevent are occurrence instead of just sending the person away with a bottle of pills until next time

the weakness

It takes time to look for factors affecting the illness and a prevention to stop it happening again