Key to mental health in the community
Ben Y.F. Fong, Martin C.S. Wong in The Routledge Handbook of Public Health and the Community, 2021
Mental health issues and psychosocial disorders are highly prevalent and can extort a high emotional and health toll on people. These issues are arousing public health concern. Mental health is really a business for everyone. Individuals need to play their part to cope with mental health problems in the community. Holistic health is practically and ideally the goal of life. Rather than focusing on just the absence of disease, holistic health entails the living balance of the ‘whole’ person. The connection between mental health, physical wellness and social wellbeing are important elements for achieving holistic health in life. Appropriate and efficient primary health care is required to provide essential health care services that are more accessible and affordable for people with mental disorders. Family medicine has a role to address the mental health of patients as such problems are very much part of the daily life experience of individuals and their family members.
Holistic view of health and illness
Mabel Aghadiuno, Christopher Dowrick in Soul Matters – The Spiritual Dimension within Healthcare, 2017
A ‘conventional’ or a CAM practitioner may not necessarily ask about a patient’s diet and social circumstances, discern that his problem is possibly psychosomatic or that his symptoms started following an existential crisis in his life. However is it important to adopt a holistic perspective of the patient especially in modern general practice and hospital care with their time constraints, the points and rewards driven systems and league tables? What do practitioners themselves think? A survey of almost 4000 GPs in Scotland revealed that nearly 9 in 10 thought that a holistic approach was necessary to provide good healthcare. Only 21% of these GPs felt that primary care was delivering holistic care of a high standard. Seventy-three per cent felt that this lack of a holistic perspective led to higher rates of prescribing, 63% considered that it resulted in more referrals to secondary care and 57% thought that it led to an increased demand for complementary therapies. Sixty-seven per cent agreed that psychological factors played an important role in organic physical disease. Time was one of the constraints to the delivery of holistic care.52 Whole-person approaches reduce the burden of symptoms and hospital referrals. They also lead to greater patient satisfaction. We may agree to disagree on the definition of holistic health but it is clear that patients do want it and they often feel that their doctors and carers are unable to deliver it.
Concept of the Traditional Medicinal System and Holistic Health
Mehwish Iqbal in Complementary and Alternative Medicinal Approaches for Enhancing Immunity, 2023
Traditional Chinese medicine based on the holistic health approach plays a considerable role in enhancing the development of medicine and life science. In the meantime, with the dramatic rise in the frequency of chronic diseases, chemical-based medicines cannot sufficiently satisfy the needs for health preservation or moreover the prevention and management of diseases. Human health stresses the applications and development of natural drugs on a large scale, to which knowledge and experiences of traditional medicines can give a lot. Globally, the ever-rising utilisation of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine is a good sign of interest from the public in the Chinese medicinal system. Traditional Chinese medicine is now an indivisible fragment of the public health system in China. Recently, traditional Chinese medicine has progressively acquired substantial endorsement as a part of complementary and alternative systems of medicine in western regions. Chinese medicine, which is the most significant part of TCM, is nowadays utilised in the health care system of around 1.5 billion people globally (Dobos et al., 2005; Qi et al., 2013). It should be observed that in traditional Chinese medicine, numerous ingredients and herbs are blended in accordance with the firm rules to create prescriptions, which are described as formulations (Fang Ji in Chinese) (Yuan et al., 2016).
Relationship between spirituality and depression among patients with malignant cancer at a selected tertiary care Institute - A study from North India
Published in Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 2022
Hoineiting Rebecca Haokip, Himani Chauhan, Ishparshi Rawat, Jyoti Mehra, Jyoti Jyoti, Kanica Sharma, Kavita Sachan, Kirandeep Kaur, Malini Krishal, Amali Mery
Spirituality is a fundamental philosophy of life that governs people’s actions and is the center of individual existence. WHO has included spirituality in its comprehensive definition of holistic health.15 Spirituality and religion are two distinct concepts. While religion involves rituals, practices, and beliefs related to a God/spirit, spirituality can be intimately connected to organized religion and encompasses secular forms that connect to the supernatural, the mythical, and the sacred.16 In this research, we ascribe to the broader secular concept of spirituality by eliciting the central religious beliefs (beliefs on transcendence and transcendent meaning of human life) as well as attendance to religious practices and support received by the religious community using a System Belief Inventory.17
Overcoming medication stigma in peer recovery: A new paradigm
Published in Substance Abuse, 2018
Noa Krawczyk, Tianna Negron, Maia Nieto, Deborah Agus, Michael I. Fingerhood
Another theme that emerged was promoting holistic health and well-being. Clients experienced several comorbid physical and mental health problems and expressed a desire to learn health tips and receive more general information about healthy habits and tools for emotional health that they could adapt to their own lives. Indeed, persons with substance use disorders are at higher risk for a range of chronic illnesses and infectious diseases,30,31 and staff agreed that encouraging healthy behaviors and basing the group on a holistic perspective of health could aid the recovery process. More specifically, the AIM group incorporates health tips related to nutrition and includes a brief exercise period with stretches and other light physical activities to encourage healthy behaviors that can be incorporated into all areas of participants' lives, beyond only substance use. Different materials with health information and a variety of light exercises are reviewed during sessions and distributed to clients to take home with them.
Negotiating Language in Providing Sexual and Reproductive Health Care to Refugees From Burma: Experiences of Service Providers From Australia
Published in Women's Reproductive Health, 2022
Amita Tuteja, Lena Sanci, Lester Mascarenhas, Elisha May Riggs, Dianne Van-Vliet, Katrina Sangster, Kimberley McGuinness, Meredith Temple-Smith
The Australian Department of Health recommends a full health assessment for all refugees within 1 month of arrival in Australia to ensure early and proactive intervention (Russell et al., 2013). Designated refugee health nurses who work closely with community health centers are usually the first primary care contact for refugee families (State Government of Victoria, Australia: Department of Health & Human Services, 2008). A holistic health care plan is made by general practitioners (GPs) that includes an appointment with a women’s health nurse for cervical screening tests, sexually transmitted infection screening, contraceptive advice, and any sexual health concerns (Chaves et al., 2016). Despite established refugee health support, available data show that immigrant and refugee women are less likely than Australian-born women to have adequate information and familiarity with modern contraceptive methods. In addition, they are less likely to have access to evidence-based and culturally relevant information about sexual and reproductive health, which would enable them to make fully informed decisions. Consequently, refugee women are at a greater risk of experiencing poor maternal and child health outcomes (Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health, 2016).
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