Biomedical Model Of Health Care

Health and illness narratives have long been part of the healthcare setting, however in more recent times, the biomedical model of healthcare with its facts and finding methodology has been the more common structure of healthcare. A byproduct of healthcare systems structured in such a way is it fails to focus itself on patient centered care and as such the treatment of a patient fails to establish and treat the cause of the issue.

Health and illness narratives can be defined as a series of events that conveys information of a person’s personal and social identity, and how they influence their health and wellbeing. The same series of events may be told or interpreted with different meaning if shared on more than one occasion. Schwartz, Luyckx,

Because of these inequities, it is important comprehend how and why historical constructs influence the health of individuals and communities today. It is argued that historical trauma and marginalisation has a historical narrative for groups or communities and can influence present-day experiences and conditions, and these influence a person’s or community’s health. Treating historical narratives as a construct shifts the dialogue away from an exclusive search for past causal variables that influence health to identifying how present-day experiences, their consequent narratives, and health impacts connected to narratives of historical for a specific marginalised group or community. The connection between historical constructs and present-day experiences, correlated narratives, and health influences may have a role as a source of present-day anguish as well as

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare states that such determinants include; agriculture and food production, education, work, living and working conditions, unemployment, water and sanitation, health care services, and housing.

Hayden & van der Riet indicate narratives provide context that can offer a profound and comprehensive examination of a person’s experience. Living with a chronic illness or enduring an acute illness can be a life-changing experience and these accounts of illness are interpretations of an individual’s understanding of their situation, reflected by environments, such as hospitals, preceding illness and life experience. Henceforth a person’s narratives provide a deep thorough view of their illness experience and inform how we can best deliver future