Jose Luis Turabian*
Citation: Turabian JL. The Biopsychosocial Approach Gives Relevance to General Medicine as a Tool of Public Health. Medp Public Health Epidemiol. 2022; 1(1): mpphe-202210006
Abstract
Public Health is the care and promotion of health applied to the entire population.
But public health should not be considered as something apart from the health of each
individual and general medical care. Numerous social factors have a powerful influence on
public health, which is why it is necessary to consider it from a comprehensive perspective.
However, comprehensiveness is a principle that is difficult to implement in its dimensions and
the role of the relational, community, and social is forgotten. Furthermore, Public health and
general medicine are often conceived as two entities providing different services within the
health system, and appear as separate disciplines, which are conceptualized, organized and
financed as two distinct entities. Thus, it is important to reflect on the conceptual links between
individual health and community health; that is, between public health and general medicine.
General medicine is a public health tool, and the working instrument of general medicine is
the biopsychosocial model. The concepts of comprehensiveness and biopsychosocial approach
are those that give importance to general medicine as a basic tool of Public Health. The
incorporation of a biopsychosocial perspective in general medicine results in a strengthening
of the public health of the population. It is suggested to give more importance to the role of
the general practitioner as a public health doctor, emphasizing the comprehensiveness of their
work that allows the construction of scenarios for the health and life of communities.
Key Words: Public Health; General Practice; Biopsychosocial; Comprehensiveness;
Theoretical Framework
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