What kinds of medical models are there? What are their characteristics and limitations?

Because medicine includes both cognition and practice, medical model also includes medical cognitive model and medical behavior model.

The former refers to people's understanding of medicine itself in a certain historical period, that is, medical epistemology; The latter refers to the behavior paradigm of people's medical practice activities in a certain historical period, that is, medical methodology. Medical model is a theoretical concept abstracted from practice, which is often expressed by words or images. Once the medical model is formed, it will become the guidance of medical practice.

Medical model, also known as medical view, is the general principle and starting point that people follow when considering and studying medical problems, that is, people's overall understanding of health and disease and their mutual transformation, including health view, disease view, diagnosis view and treatment view. , affecting the thinking and behavior pattern of the whole medical work in a certain period.

So that medicine has a certain tendency, habitual style and characteristics. Change from biomedical model to bio-psychological-social medical model. Medical psychology is gradually developed and perfected in order to adapt to this change.

Medical model (pattern): Different styles, concepts and norms formed in medical theory teaching and clinical practice due to different cultural systems and medical purposes. After the introduction of western medicine into China, there was a discussion about the medical model. No matter from different angles, the medical models of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine are different.

For example, traditional medicine belongs to the categories of life medicine, human medicine, ecological medicine and health medicine; Biomedicine belongs to the categories of evidence-based medicine, disease medicine, physical and chemical medicine and antagonistic medicine.

reference data

Medical model _ Baidu Encyclopedia?