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write an essay with the title ‘Models of Health and Illness’.
In your essay you should differentiate between models of health and illness and you should evaluate at least two theoretical approaches (AC 5.1, 5.2). Within your essay you should also consider how health and illness vary in different cultures, social groups and over time. (AC 2.1).
5.1 Differentiate between models of health and illness (biomedical model and social model)
5.2 Evaluate different theoretical approaches (functionalist theory, feminism and Marxist, conflict theory, symbolic interactionalism)
2.1 Within your essay you should also consider how health and illness vary in different cultures, social groups and over time.
