Drawing on module materials and key reading, consider how the biomedical model restricts our understanding: Health Promotion Essay, NUI, Ireland

1. Drawing on module materials and key reading, consider how the biomedical model restricts our understanding and experiences of health. You should very briefly refer to at least one other model of health in your answer.
2. Briefly discuss how an awareness of your own health beliefs and behaviors can help you become a better role model to social care service users. Key sources for this question You will find relevant information throughout the first few weeks of the module on the moodle page.

The following are some suggestions that you may like to start with:

• The meaning of ‘health’ from notes and articles on Moodle
• Health from the perspective of the biomedical model’s focus on the functioning of the body
• Health examined by focusing on social factors and in particular the social model of health
• Some of you may also find material relevant covering the power from the service-user perspective.