title: The need for a new medical model: a challenge for biomedicine.
abstract: The dominant model of disease today is biomedical, and it leaves no room within tis framework for the social, psychological, and behavioral dimensions of illness. A biopsychosocial model is proposed that provides a blueprint for research, a framework for teaching, and a design for action in the real world of health care.
mesh_terms: D004194:Disease; D006117:Grief; D008511:Medicine; D008954:Models, Biological; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D011570:Psychiatry; D012961:Sociology