Examining socio-structural factors and harms in the biopsychosocial model of chronic illness and disability
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Joanne Hunt
Summary
This article critically examines the biopsychosocial (BPS) model of health and illness, focusing on a particular variant dominant in UK health and social policy. It argues that this variant has been co-opted to serve political agendas including welfare reform, healthcare spending cuts, and profit generation for the disability insurance industry, and has been associated with harms experienced by patients with chronic illness, 'medically unexplained symptoms', and disabilities. The piece explores socio-structural factors often overlooked in mainstream BPS discourse, questioning whether the model as applied is truly holistic or has become a tool for systemic harm.
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A particular variant of biopsychosocial model, dominant in UK health and social policy, has been associated with political agendas, predominantly: welfare reform, healthcare spending cuts, and creation of profits for the disability insurance industry.
This variant of the model has also been associated with harms experienced
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