Dahlgren And Whitehead's Social Model

In the past 150 years, Dahlgren and Whitehead's social models have become more relevant due to the living condition having improved. The rate of the commutable diseases has significantly decreased while the percentage of non-commutable disease such as the obesity epidemic, increased (Browen, 2005). As mention above, the biomedical model is able to detect what substances caused the obesity epidemic, but cannot determine the social change such as food consumption, which influence personal choice as effective as Dahlgren and Whitehead’s model (Cockerham, 2007; Dahlgren & Whitehead, 1991). Before the early 20th century, the living conditions were not ideal, therefore, the biomedical model was more relevant as diseases were mostly caused by poor