Session 1

Question 1

Why is the biopsychosocial model is important in modern medicine?

Answer 1

So all factors are acknowledged.

Question 2

What is a lay belief?

Answer 2

How people understand and make sense of health and illness, constructed by people with know specialist knowledge.

Question 3

Name and describe the 3 perceptions of health.

Answer 3

Negative: health=absence of illness
Functional: health=ability to do certain things
Positive: health= state of wellbeing

Question 4

What may happen if lay beliefs are incompatible with medical information?

Answer 4

Medical information may be rejected

Question 5

What are the 3 influences lay beliefs have on behaviour?

Answer 5

Health behaviour: actively maintaining health
Illness behaviour: activity of ill person to seek solution
Sick role behaviour: formal response to symptoms

Question 6

Give an example of health behaviour

Answer 6

Smoking is more prevalent in lower socioeconomic groups

Question 7

Give some examples of what influences of illness behaviour…

Answer 7

• Culture
• Lay referral
• Visibility of symptoms
• The extent to which symptoms disrupt life
• Understanding
• Availability of resourses

Question 8

Name the 4 ways in which socio-economical status (SES) can be measured.

Answer 8

• Occupation
• Areas people live
• Life expectancy
• Infant mortality

Question 9

What are the 4 ways the Black Report explains health inequalities?

Answer 9

1. Artefact: due to stats collected
2. Social Selection: from health to social position
3. Behavioural-Cultural: health due to peoples choices
4. Materialist: inequalities arise from different access to material resources

Question 10

How can access to healthcare be measured?

Answer 10

Utilisation (receipt of services)