The social model of disability frames disability as something that is created by society, rather than only by medical conditions or physical differences. The model acknowledges that people have ...

Biomedical and biopsychosocial frameworks for understanding health and disease are often seen as mutually incompatible: The biomedical model, focusing on disease as an exclusively biological ...

In light of the unified persons with disability (PWD) ID being pushed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development and National Council on Disability Affairs, and the upcoming National ...

In 1977, George Engel famously argued that medicine in general and psychiatry in particular ought to shift from a biomedical perspective of disease to a biopsychosocial (BPS) perspective on health. He ...