Do biomedical models of illness make for good healthcare systems? Introduction Cultural and professional models of illness influence decisions on individual patients and delivery of health care. The biomedical model of illness‚ which has dominated health care for the past century‚ cannot fully explain many forms of illness. This failure stems partly from three assumptions: all illness has a single underlying cause‚ disease (pathology) is always the single cause‚ and removal or attenuation
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Name Mental health I had been having periods of anxiety for over eight months which were characterized by sleepless nights and difficulties in concentration. Before then‚ I had been taking care of my father after my mother became ill and passed away two years ago. She had looked after my father and me in a loving manner and always took good care of us. I am a single women aged 26 years. I recently resigned from work in order to be present with my father as I take care of him. The problem got worse
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Module Title: CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT ISSUES (BAM3011) Assessment Title: Management models Student Number: 1011331 Module Leader: Barry Simmons Date of Submission: 27th April 2012 The two management models that will be critically evaluated on their usefulness to managers in the service sector are the Just-in-Time (JIT) and the Lean manufacturing models. These two manufacturing models were invented in the early 1960s which have been in used and practised in the manufacturing industries
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CENTRE FOR MICRO FINANCE at IFMR Business Correspondent Model: A Preliminary Exploration Report compiled by Binit Rath‚ Minakshi Ramji and Alexandra Kobishyn Published for the Microfinance India Summit‚ October 2009 Thanks are due to Dan Kopf‚ a former Research Associate at the Centre for Micro Finance (CMF)‚ and Upamanyu Dash (Summer Intern 2009‚ IIFM) who was closely involved in the Orissa case study. The entire research team expresses its gratitude to the staff at FINO‚ A Little World (ALW)
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DEVELOPMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE IN MODERN SOCIETY: Medical Model Mental illness or mental disorder is a word used for any state that influences an individual’s feeling‚ performance or opinion in a method that is upsetting or functioning poorly. There are some sources which now also refer the mental illness in an aspect that hampers functioning and causes distress. Some researchers still refer the mental illness as the disease of mind and this stigma was accepted since ages. However‚ this attitude
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Bullet point format plan -The aim of this essay is to critically evaluate a chosen counselling service. -Briefly description of the counselling service‚ outlining its aims and objectives. -Using Donabedians (1980) model‚ the essay will go on discussing and critically evaluating the structure‚ process and outcome of the service which will be backed up by relevant supporting evidence. -Following a final conclusion the essay will end with a personal reflective analysis. -Newton (2002)
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attitudes towards disability (Kuodyte et al.‚ 2012). In the past‚ the medical model of disability was generally accepted. However‚ it has been successfully challenged by new disability studies that explore disability in social and cultural terms as a social construct (Titchkosky‚ 2000). The social model emerged as public reaction and criticism of the medical model. Specifically in the UK people with disabilities felt that medical model was too much focused on functional limitations‚ while there was a
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This is called the portable health care model. There is shortage of human resources‚ poorly trained providers‚ poor quality of care‚ lack of drugs‚ equipment and ineffective referral systems. These are responsible for the lack of progress in reducing maternal mortality and in providing basic reproductive and maternal health services and act as a barrier for achieving millennium development goals. Recognizing this need to strengthen the Indian healthcare delivery system led to the conceptualization
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THE GAP MODEL OF SERVICE QUALITY Service Quality Quality of the service is the degree of conformance of all the relevant features and characteristics of service to all the aspects of the consumers’ needs limited by the price and delivery s/he will accept. Quality can be viewed from two perspectives: Internal quality specifications based on conformance to based on customer-perceived External quality quality Importance Of Quality For Service Marketers Gain competitive
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Substance abuse and dependency persist as a major health and social concern in America. Author Joseph A. Califano‚ a former secretary of Health‚ Education‚ and Welfare notes‚ “it is hard to find an American family or circle of friends that substance abuse has not touched directly (Califano‚ J. A.‚ p. 1‚ 2008).” Califano further explains that although Americans are 4 percent of the world’s population‚ Americans consume 65 percent of the world’s illegal drugs. Furthermore‚ one in four Americans will
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