What Is a Biopsychosocial Approach?

The biological, psychological, and social medical method is a comprehensive study of human health and disease from three aspects of biology, psychology, and sociology. This method emphasizes the understanding of people as a unity of the three attributes of nature, thinking, and society, and requires examining and controlling disease from the interaction of human biological characteristics, psychological processes, and social factors. It is developed on the basis of biomedical methods, with the development of society and technology, and changes in the disease spectrum. It is more developed and improved than biomedical methods, and it is the inheritance and development of biomedical methods. It does not negate or despise the biological content of the disease process, but focuses on the development of psychological and social factors on the basis of continuing to deepen biological research, and has achieved major achievements. For example, a large number of research results show that the primary The causes and treatment results of hypertension, coronary heart disease, bronchial asthma, gastric ulcer and so on are all closely related to psychological factors, and the impact of environmental pollution on human health, the continuous generation of "modern civilization disease", etc. all suggest that it is important for society Diseases caused by factors should be "socially diagnosed", "social prescriptions" issued, and related prevention and control measures formulated. ^[1]