From a biopsychosocial model to a global health approach

Journal title PSICOLOGIA DELLA SALUTE
Author/s Fabio Lucidi
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/3
Language Italian Pages 6 P. 7-12 File size 163 KB
DOI 10.3280/PDS2021-003002
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Many years after the proposal of a biopsychosocial model, today we speak of Global Health as a fundamental human right, in which health and disease are considered results of processes that are not only biological but also economic, social, political, cultural and environmental, transcending and going beyond national perspectives, as well as the interests and possibilities of individual disciplines. Adopting a transdisciplinary perspective from a transna-tional perspective, to speak of Global Health is to foreground the inequalities that are present in terms of hope and quality of life, disease and disability as well as health resources and op-portunities both within and between countries, through research, training and intervention in care, disease prevention and health promotion. Health Psychology has the opportunity to con-tribute to this process by bringing to it knowledge, skills, perspectives ready to merge in an approach that focuses on problem solving and not on the disciplines that contribute to it.

Keywords: biopsychosocial model, global health, health inequalities

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Fabio Lucidi, Dal modello bio-psico-sociale all’approccio alla salute globale in "PSICOLOGIA DELLA SALUTE" 3/2021, pp 7-12, DOI: 10.3280/PDS2021-003002