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Grant R Martsolf1,2, Daniel Hall3
1Department of Acute and Tertiary Care, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Abstract:
Health care systems in the United States are increasingly focused on addressing the social and cultural determinants of health (ie, a biopsychosocial model of disease). We applaud this important and laudable shift within US healthcare, which has long been dominated by a merely biomedical model of disease. However, we offer three reasons for nurses and other healthcare providers to proceed with caution; otherwise, human culture could become merely a tool of the healthcare industry to be instrumentally deployed in meeting its procedural goals.
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