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S/N/231. Bio-psychosocial perspectives and influences on patients with CHD

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DATE:
2009
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The paper examines the impacts of stress and smoking on people with coronary heart disease (CHD) discussing social influences of smoking, identifying the drawbacks of the biomedical approach to illness that reduces its causes down to the simplest explanation, and presenting arguments in favour of the bio-psychosocial approach that considers the needs of both mind and body. Smoking related risks factors of CHD are considered together with environmental, cultural, psychological and social risk factors.

 

KEYWORDS: n, bio-psychosocial, perspectives, influences, patients, chd,

 
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