Challenging the Biopsychosocial Model in a Chronic Constipation Clinic

Chronic fatigue syndrome and the biopsychosocial model.

I completely concur with Dr Des Spence: Big Pharma is manipulating doctors and exploiting patients, and Big Medicine is neglecting its role to protect patients.1 I can remember, shortly after becoming a GP Principal in 1987, a drug representative trying to persuade us to prescribe evening primrose oil capsules for itching in eczema. The glossy presentation and neurolinguistic programming attemp...

The Relationship between Chronic Constipation and Urinary Tract Infection in Children: A Case-Control Clinical Study

  Background Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common bacterial infections in children, if not diagnosed leads to serious complications such as hypertension, chronic renal failure and renal scar. Constipation is one of the main risk factors for recurrent UTI. The aim of present study was to investigate the relationship between chronic constipation and urinary tract infection in c...

The Biopsychosocial Correlates of Chronic Pelvic Pain and Quality of Life in Women Attending a Specialty Pelvic Pain Clinic

A Biopsychosocial Model of Schizophrenia

51 English translation © 2002 M.E. Sharpe, Inc., from the Russian text © 2001 V.M. Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute. “Biopsikhosotsial’naia model’ shizofrenii,” Sbornik nauchnykh trudov Sankt-Peterburgskogo nauchnoissledovatel’skogo psikhonevrologicheskogo instituta im. V.M. Bekhtereva, 2001, 137, 230–41. Translated by the author. The author is associated with the V.M. Bekhterev ...

Understanding Health: A Biopsychosocial Model

The present study on biopsychosocial model indicates that health can only be understood in the contexts of biological, psychological and social aspects. This model suggests that the diagnostic process should always include the interacting role of biological, psychological and social factors in assessing an individual’s health.