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The biopsychosocial model of health is very closely aligned to holistic views about health but is nevertheless distinguished from it in the wider literature. Engel (1977, cited in Marks et al., 2015 and Sarafino and Smith, 2016) developed the biopyschosocial model of health and illness – an expansion of the (bio)medical model that combines social, psychological and biological aspects of health and accounts for the interaction between these. Biological factors include factors like genetics and our physiological condition and systems. Psychological factors include taking into account how we behave, how and what we think and how we feel. Social factors include consideration of the fact that we are social beings who interact with others within groups, communities and societies. This is a model of health that has influenced research, theory and practice in health psychology but arguably has not had as much impact in other disciplinary areas in relation to health.