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Narrow Model
Narrow Model (Health Education · Narrow Perspectives of Health) — "People with a narrow perspective consider health as the absence of disease or disability or…
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- The narrow biomedical model defines health mainly through physical functioning.
- Health is understood as the absence of disease, disability, or biological dysfunction.
- Calling someone unhealthy or sick requires evidence of a particular illness.
- Social, emotional, and psychological factors are not considered causes of unhealthy conditions.
- Health is limited to the physical and physiological capabilities needed for routine tasks.
- A person is healthy when all body parts, cells, tissues, and organ systems function well without apparent dysfunction.
- The human body is viewed like a computer or mechanical device that experts maintain when something goes wrong.
- Physicians commonly emphasize treatment and clinical interventions with medication.
- This approach gives less emphasis to educational interventions for behavior change.
