Medical model and perspectives for hospital development / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Medical model is the product of medical practice and crystallization of the essence of medicine and insights of life based on human being's fights against diseases for ages.Medical practice and medical model change fundamentally with the changing needs of human.being for health,having undergone for example from biomedical model to biopsychosocial(BPS)model.Thanks to perspectives of Epistemology and practice theory,the medical model is nourishing itself with BPS theories and methodologies for sustainable development,helping human being to better understand health and life multi-dimensionally.In such a model,individual hospitals will shift from focusing on disease care to provision of wholesome and sustained health services,while hospital systems will shift from coordination to resources reallocation and vertical integration.Thus the hospitals will gain new perspectives and broader horizon for development in the future.