Pessoa com deficiência entre o modelo biomédico e o modelo biopsicossocial: concepções em disputa

Abstract

This article discusses concepts in dispute about people with disabilities, based on an analysis of the biomedical and biopsychosocial model. It is about discussing conceptions that directly affect public policies for this segment. Understanding that public policies are the result of disputes of economic interests, social forces and governmental actions. Thus, it is in this scenario that it seeks to ensure the defense of access to public policies for people with disabilities. The essay aims to analyze the biopsychosocial model of the Brazilian law of inclusion of 2015, in the context of dispute with the biomedical model, taking into account the categories: barriers, impediments, participation and equal conditions. The debated problem is presented in the investigation of the applicability of the biopsychosocial model in public policies aimed at people with disabilities. The article was elaborated with the dialectical critical method, based on a bibliographic research and its main considerations result in the defense of the biopsychosocial model of public policies that ensure the human dignity of people with disabilities Recognizing them as social subjects of rights.