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Discuss how inequalities in health can impact on the well-being of an individual using the biopsychosocial model
Health is the basic rights of everyone irrespective of any background but modern medicine and advancement along with its progress has brought many inequality in the health and healthcare.
This can impact an individual from all aspects. For instance an individual with congenital disease is impacted in many ways for having a good health .This individual is first affected physically in how to manage the illness (biological ) having poor family environment to overcome the illness ,poverty (social) and finally having a poor coping mechanism(psychological) to overcome the illness .This can interrupt the intellectual level in regards to treatment, disrupt family peace and finally impact the mental health. Overall well being of an individual is impacted because of the factors like poverty ,socioeconomic status ,education, race, etc.,