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Psychology 2019
July 31-August 01, 2019
Journal of Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Science
July 31-August 01, 2019 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
22
nd
World Congress on
Bio-psychosocial model of health
Simon George Taukeni
University of Namibia, Namibia
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he focus of this work is mainly on integrating bio-psychosocial model in public health discipline. Its founder, George L.
Engel (1977) discovered that bio-psychosocial model represents the contribution of biological, psychological and social
factors in determining health. Authors like Nadir, Hamza and Mehmood (2018) concur that bio-psychosocial model has been
a mainstay in the ideal practice of modern medicine. It is attributed to improve patient care, compliance and satisfaction and
to reduce physician-patient conflict. Even though it appears that patients and healthcare system are likely to benefit from the
utilization of bio-psychosocial model, further research is still needed to determine whether or not bio-psychosocial model is
a workable model in healthcare system to benefit all patients. In particular, more knowledge about how psychosocial factors
can influence health and disease remain unclear to most public health professionals. Both, strengths and critical views of bio-
psychosocial model are critically analyzed.
Biography
Simon George Taukeni has passion in Public Health specifically in areas such as, HIV/AIDS, Epidemiology, Monitoring and Evaluation
and Health Psychology. He is working at the University of Namibia. He believes that psychosocial model of health is very important
to unearth general population situation in accessing healthcare and influencing their lifestyles. Thus, prevention and intervention
strategies for public health should be devised in consideration of how biological, behavioral, psychological, social, economic and
spiritual factors contribute to health status of the general population.
staukeni@gmail.com