Examples of integrative medicine in the following topics:
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- Alternative medicine is any practice claiming to heal "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine".
- Alternative medicine methods are diverse in their foundations and methodologies.
- Alternative medicine is frequently grouped with complementary medicine or integrative medicine, which, in general, refers to the same interventions when used in conjunction with mainstream techniques, under the umbrella term complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM.
- Integrative medicine is the combination of the practices and methods of alternative/complementary medicine with conventional medicine.
- It may include preventive medicine and patient-centered medicine.
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- Epidemiology is the scientific study of factors affecting the health and illness of individuals and populations; it serves as the foundation and logic for interventions made in the interest of public health and preventive medicine.
- Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field of medicine concerned with the development and integration of psychosocial, behavioral, and biomedical knowledge relevant to health and illness.
- According to evolutionary medicine, much illness is not directly caused by an infection or body dysfunction, but is instead a response created by the body.
- Evolutionary medicine calls this set of responses "sickness behavior. "
- However, the rise of scientific medicine in the past two centuries has altered or replaced many historic health practices.
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- Elements in a specific culture are not necessarily integrated into a coherent system and may be contradictory.
- The term alternative medicine is misleading, as these treatments have not been proven to be an effective alternative to regulated conventional medicine, but alternative medicine proponents point out that the same can be said (not proven, though often demonstrated to be probable) of Western Medicine.
- This is especially important - and part of the reason alternative and western approaches are being integrated in many settings - because human biology is incredibly complex, and often the answers to any condition require systematic comparison of multiple approaches and methods.
- Analyses across both fields often finds similar problematic procedures in both fields, but recent attempts to integrate (rather than demonize) these fields may be capable of reducing these problems.
- In so doing, people may ascertain the best health-related practices for themselves and the people they care about while also pushing both of these medical traditions toward greater regulation, oversight, integration, and care practices for all people.
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- It is the cornerstone of public health, and informs policy decisions and evidence-based medicine by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive medicine.
- According to Durkheim, Catholic society has normal levels of integration while Protestant society has low levels.
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- Preventive medicine, or preventive care, refers to measures taken to prevent diseases, rather than curing them or treating their symptoms.
- Preventive medicine, or preventive care, refers to measures taken to prevent diseases, rather than curing them or treating their symptoms.
- Simple examples of preventive medicine include hand washing, breastfeeding, and immunizations.
- Since preventive medicine deals with healthy individuals or populations, the costs and potential harms from interventions need even more careful examination than in treatment.
- Explain the purpose of preventive medicine and how insurance companies can influence the types of preventive medicine chosen
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- Historically and in many parts of the world, women's participation in the profession of medicine has been significantly restricted.
- Historically and in many parts of the world, women's participation in medicine (as physicians, for instance) has been significantly restricted, although women's informal practice of medicine in the role of caregivers and in the allied health professions has been widespread.
- Women's participation in medical professions was limited by law and practice during the decades while medicine was professionalizing.
- The practice of medicine remains disproportionately male overall.
- Analyze the role women play in the medical field and how gender parity affects women's choices when it comes to medicine
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- Modern medicine approaches health care from two angles.
- Modern, scientific medicine has proven uniquely effective at treating and preventing disease.
- It is increasingly widespread and more widely accepted than other forms of medicine.
- Modern medicine is notably secular, and indifferent to ideas of the supernatural or the spiritual.
- Modern, scientific medicine is the most effective contributor to the health of humans in the world today.
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- Some diseases may also be influenced by genes that differ in frequency between groups, such as sickle-cell anemia, which occurs overwhelmingly among some black populations, although the significance in clinical medicine of race categories as a proxy for exact genotypes of individuals has been questioned.
- Race-based medicine is the term for medicines that are targeted at specific ethnic clusters that are shown to have a propensity for a certain disorder.
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- Publicly funded medicine is health care that is paid wholly or mostly by public funds (i.e., taxes).
- Publicly funded medicine is often referred to as socialized medicine by its opponents, whereas supporters of this approach tend to use the terms universal healthcare, single payer healthcare, or National Health Services.
- Publicly funded medicine may be administered and provided by the government, but in some systems that is not an obligation: there exist systems where medicine is publicly funded, yet most health providers are private entities.
- Proponents of publicly funded medicine cite several advantages over private insurance or free-market approaches to health care:
- This is very much the case in the United Kingdom where private medicine is seen as less prestigious than public medicine by much of the population.
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- In a 1992 JAMA article, the Joint Committee of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American Society of Addiction Medicine published this definition for alcoholism: "Alcoholism is a primary chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations.
- Like many other recent analyses of social patterning within obese and non-obese populations, these studies suggest that while evolutionary hypotheses provided an important starting point, the answers to the problems likely lie either elsewhere or via an integration of evolutionary and fundamental causes theories.