Pathways to well-being: Untangling the causal relationships among biopsychosocial variables

Nandini Karunamuni, Ikuyo Imayama and Dharshini Goonetilleke

Social Science & Medicine, 2021, vol. 272, issue C

Abstract: The biopsychosocial (BPS) model that challenged the historically dominant biomedical model remains influential today. This model considers biological, psychological, and social factors that can contribute to health and illness. Yet, a growing body of literature has been highly critical of the model for being too vague and for not providing details as to how the three factors of the model interact and contribute to health and illness.

Keywords: Biopsychosocial model; BPS-Pathways; Subjective well-being; Subjective experience; Integrative health; Health promotion; Health care model; Personalized medicine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112846

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