Thesis:
The BMM and BPSM should hybridize and become the standard model for healthcare.
Definition of BMM: The BMM is a conceptual model of healthcare that excludes psychological and social factors and includes only biologic factors in an attempt to understand a patient’s medical illness or disorder.
Definition of BPSM: The BPSM is used to understand the biological and psychological contributions to disease. This perspective does not emphasize physical medicine to the extent that it should apply all mechanisms.
Why is the BMM greater at treatment outcomes, then BPSM:
The BPSM is known to increase treatment outcomes because the recognition and understanding of patients’ beliefs, feelings, thoughts and health behavior is necessary for the
