Health Sciences 3050A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Biopsychosocial Model, Medical Model, Schecter Guitar Research

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3050A/B
• Professor: Philip Doyle

Document Summary

A brief review from last week: definition of quality of life , origins and evolution. Began in the 40s and 50s: conceptual, and definitional expansions, limitations evolving from the medical model. State of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease . Over the most recent years, folks are starting to identify that spirituality will pay an important role in the self-evaluation in the quality of life. It is an individual decision and each one of us is unique, those factors have to be weighed. Quality of life or health-related quality of life: ultimately relates to one"s perceived satisfaction with his/her level of functioning and control of. Disease , or health condition or challenge(s) to qol . Assumption that someone is sick that limits their function, but the quality of life that emerges in response to that is going to be based on individual coping and modification.