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Karen Dorman Unit Code HS1210 Anthropology What is an Explanatory Model? An Explanatory Model is what a patient or client would use to help to explain how they perceive their problems or to describe their symptoms to a Doctor or a health professional. These are what a Doctor or a health professional should use to enable them to diagnose and treat a patient or client. Who holds them? The patient or client holds the Explanatory Models, as it is only that person who can give a detailed description of how they are feeling. What is their relevance for health professional-patient interactions? A Doctor would use an Explanatory Model to elicit facts from a patient about his or her illness or problems. Medical anthropology has some relevance in this instance because as a Doctor they should have some form of understanding about how a patient lives, their life style, culture and customs, religion, surrounding area but also the...

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