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Alternative medicine
Published in Silvia Bonino, Coping with Chronic Illness, 2020
The shortcoming of scientific culture, including the refusal of science and technology, are serious and widespread in many countries; they are also sometimes combined with disillusionment, meaning what follows unfulfilled promises. For the former, the main culprits are education and mass media, while official medicine has also contributed to disillusionment – as its often triumphalistic tones have done nothing but cultivate disbelief. At the same time, touting contempt toward all knowledge derived from other cultures and disciplines. This arrogance of official medicine produced a boomerang effect, prompting individual interest in alternative medicine. But what is even more conducive to disaffection from scientific medicine is the lack of attention to the subjectivity of the patient, which manifests itself in many ways: the inability to take into consideration the totality of the person, as a being not only physical but also psychological; the disconnected interventions that fragment the body into many disconnected parts; communication and relationship errors; the lack of involvement of the patient in understanding the disease, in making therapeutic choices and their implementation, up to the forced imposition of the therapies. It is above all this inattention to the subjectivity of the patient that the use of alternative therapies can be traced, too hastily labeled as the fruit of ignorance and as magical reasoning. Although it is undeniable that many alternative therapies are accompanied by an apparatus of rites and symbols that favors magical reasoning, the latter alone is unable to explain its diffusion.
From Prohibition to Prevention and Intervention
Published in Jonathan C. Beazley, Stephanie Field, Cannabis on Campus, 2018
Jonathan C. Beazley, Stephanie Field
Another possible explanation could be the boomerang effect or psychological reactance.21 Defined as the reaction to a perceived threat to a firmly held ideal or position, it results in the opposite response to the intended message, a reassertion of a threatened freedom. We can see this in many arenas, including political discourse, where both sides of the debate seem not only impervious to information contradictory to their chosen beliefs but instead filled with a greater resolve. Challenging a belief directly, aggressively, can cause the recipients to become even more entrenched in their held position.
Prenatal and Postnatal Consequences of Maternal Substance Abuse
Published in Pedro J. Lecca, Thomas D. Watts, Preschoolers and Substance Abuse, 2014
Pedro J. Lecca, Thomas D. Watts
The specific target population profile are women between ages 18 and 34. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's 1982 campaign estimated that 22 percent of all women 18-34 heard public service announcements about drinking while pregnant. This campaign was carried out by state and local governments, volunteers, and the March of Dimes (NIAAA, 1987). Increasing the awareness of risks has often had a boomerang effect in drug abuse prevention programs and there is no data to support the perspective that disseminating knowledge alone is effective in changing attitudes and behavior (Kinder et al., 1980).
Asian innovation in pharmaceutical and medical device industry – beyond tomorrow
Published in Journal of Medical Economics, 2021
Mihajlo Jakovljevic, Wenqing Wu, Joav Merrick, Arcadio Cerda, Mirjana Varjacic, Takuma Sugahara
South-East Asia offers a significant room of opportunity for medical equipment imports, given its growing demand and affordability. Public health spending exceeding 51%, private insurance market ranging up to 12% (Exception of Indonesia with 25%) and huge out-of-pocket private spending are frequently generating risk of catastrophic health care expenditure. This myriad of factors has driven many consecutive regional governments to adopt sets of reforms increasing public health spending. This largely refers to renewal and imports of hospital medical technology for diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation. Background of such responsibility is immense social spending coming out of a boomerang effect. Hospital intensive care admissions of patients suffering from advanced or end stages of many intractable diseases ranging from mental disorders to cancer might be prohibitively expensive. Obviously, the cost of work absenteeism and opportunity cost of premature mortality and loss of working ability began to play a prominent role on the agenda of regional ministries of health and public health insurance funds42 (Table 2).
Factors Influencing Suicide Risk Assessment and Management in VA Primary Care Clinics: A Qualitative Study of Provider Perspectives
Published in Military Behavioral Health, 2018
Megan L. Petrik, Benjamin F. Miller, Bridget B. Matarazzo
PCPs readily acknowledged that the type of mental health resources available to them, either via PC-MHI BHPs or referral to outpatient mental health clinics, impacted their ability to effectively manage suicide risk. For example, one provider noted a boomerang effect when mental health concerns could not be effectively addressed: “[when veterans] cannot be seen quickly in mental health, they come back to be seen in primary care.” PCPs also described using PC-MHI BHPs as a resource to bridge the gap between primary care and specialty mental health. Access to mental health services varied across sites based on the type of mental health services offered (e.g., individual vs. group therapy) and number of staff available in mental health clinics. The types of PC-MHI services available also varied and included a range from co-located (behavioral health a separate service but in same physical location) to fully integrated (behavioral health is embedded into primary care clinic) models. Emergency psychiatry services were readily accessible to most PCPs during regular business hours, but less accessible during evenings or weekends.