Holistic health is a philosophy of medical care that views physical and mental aspects of life as closely interconnected and equally important approaches to treatment. Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language MIND ( Moving In New Directions) (est 1975 is an alternative education high school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. While frequently associated with alternative medicine, it is also increasingly used in mainstream medical practice as part of a broad view of patient care. The term alternative medicine, as used in the modern western world encompasses any healing practice "that does not fall within the realm of conventional Medicine. A patient is any person who receives medical attention care or treatment.
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History
Holism as a health concept has long existed outside of academic circles, but only relatively recently has the modern medical establishment begun to integrate it into the mainstream health care system. Distinguish from the suffix -holism, which describes addictions Health care is the prevention treatment and management of illness and the preservation of mental health through the services offered by the medical, Nursing In the United States, the first National Conference on Holistic Health was conducted by the Health Optimizing Institute and The Mandala Society with the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in June 1975. The University of California San Diego (popularly known as UC San Diego or UCSD) is a public Research university in San Diego, California Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This continued there for ten years with about three thousand health professionals participating each year. After the second year it was not under the Medical School.
This university conference supported the creation of the Association For Holistic Health in 1976 and the Holistic Medical Association in 1978.
Many regional Holistic Health Associations followed with the American Holistic Health Association being established in 1989.
Philosophy
Holistic health is not itself a method of treatment, but is an approach to how treatment should be applied. Holistic concepts of health and fitness view achieving and maintaining good health as requiring more than just taking care of the various singular components that make up the physical body, additionally incorporating aspects such as emotional and spiritual well-being. Health is a state of complete physical mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity Physical fitness is used in two close meanings general fitness (a state of Health and well-being and specific fitness (a task-oriented definition based on the ability An emotion is a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings thoughts and behaviours Spirituality, in a narrow sense concerns itself with matters of the Spirit, a concept closely tied to religious belief and Faith, a transcendent reality The goal is a wellness that encompasses the entire person, rather than just the lack of physical pain or disease. Pain, in the sense of physical pain, is a typical sensory experience that may be described as the unpleasant awareness of a noxious stimulus or bodily harm A disease is an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs bodily functions and can be deadly
Criticism
Some holistic health advocates subscribe to alternative medical practices unsupported by basic or clinical science.
See also
References
External links
- Holistic Wellness - directory of holistic practitioners and schools
- Holistic Community - information and resources within the field of Holistic Therapy
- American Holistic Health Association
- research and practice information
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