The Biopsychosocial-Digital Approach to Health and Disease: Call for a Paradigm Expansion

摘要: Digital health is an advancing phenomenon in modern care systems. Currently, numerous stakeholders various countries are evaluating the potential benefits of digital solutions at individual, population, and/or organizational levels. Additionally, driving factors being created from customer-side systems to push providers, policymakers, or researchers embrace solutions. However, providers may differ their approach adopt these Health not assumed be appropriately trained address requirements integrating into daily everyday practices and procedures. To adapt changing demands systems, it necessary expand relevant paradigms train human resources as required. In this article, a more comprehensive paradigm will proposed, based on ‘biopsychosocial model’ assessing disease, originally introduced by George L Engel. The “biopsychosocial model” must leveraged include “digital” component, thus suggesting ‘biopsychosocial-digital’ disease. Modifications “biopsychosocial” model transition “biopsychosocial-digital” explained. Furthermore, emerging implications understanding disease clarified pertaining relevance training for provision research.