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Introducton To Behaviour Sciences and Health Care Models New (Replica)
Introducton To Behaviour Sciences and Health Care Models New (Replica)
1. Culture
2. Racial classification
3. Geographic distribution
4. Cultural methods of dealing with
diseases
5. Stigmatization of illness
BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES IN MEDICAL
PRACTICE
• Workers in the public health field have learned to integrate behavioral
science into their practice to promote healthy behaviors and
encourage people to access health care.
• Psychologists and other mental health professionals may also
incorporate behavioral science into their treatment of patients.
TEACHING OF BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES TO
DENTAL STUDENTS
• The need for a formal behavioural sciences teaching programme in
the dental undergraduate curriculum was identified in the 1980s.
• The General Dental Council (GDC) has had a pivotal role in developing
behavioural sciences teaching in the dental curriculum across the UK
in 1990
• However, the nature and extent of this teaching remains unclear and
indications are that it varies greatly between schools with varying
individual perspectives on how it should be taught.
• Medical science over the last few decades has
undergone vast changes. Technologically it has
advanced at a rapid pace. There has been a
realization as well that the behaviour of individuals
and communities also influences the occurrence of
disease.
• Medical schools around the globe have realized the
need for incorporating behavioural sciences as an
integral part of the basic sciences taught to medical
students.
CONCEPT OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
CONCEPT OF HOLISTIC APPROACH
Cont….
ELEMENTS OF HOLISTIC APPROACH
• Person: A human being with well integrated
mind, body and spirit in a dynamic balance
• Environment: Set of external forces that influence our
experience of health and disease
• Health: Dynamic state of well being of mind-body-spirit
balance
• Physician: Who supports health rather than one who
merely treats the disease
HEALTH CARE MODELS
• Bio-Psycho-Social (BPS) model of health and illness
• The integrated model of health care; correlation of Body,
Brain, Mind , Spirit and BS
• 2. immune factors
• 3.metabolism
• 4. neurotransmitters
• Socioeconomic stressors are;
• Occupational hazards, dietary habits, child rearing practices, personality
development, exposure to childhood trauma
• Many metabolic disorders…. Lifestyle disorders because of connection of
CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF BPS
• The mind and body are not separated when considering matters of
health and illness.
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THE INTEGRATED MODEL OF HEALTH
CARE
disaster management
NON-PHARMACOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS
(NPIS)