COPD health-care delivery: a holistic and dynamic approach is needed

Diabetes and Mental Health: a Holistic Approach Is Needed.

No one illness can be totally compartmentalised. Associations between illnesses commonly exist. As such, nurses need to be mindful of holistic care requirements of clients. Disciplines Medicine and Health Sciences | Social and Behavioral Sciences Publication Details Patterson, C. & Moxham, L. (2016). Diabetes and mental health: a holistic approach is needed. Australian Nursing and Midwifery Jou...

Diagnosing cognitive impairment and dementia in primary health care -- a more active approach is needed.

OBJECTIVE to determine the documentation rate of dementia in primary health care, the clinical characteristics of patients with documented and undocumented dementia, and the diagnostic evaluations made in cognitive impairment. DESIGN cross-sectional population-based study with a retrospective review of medical history. SETTING primary health care in the municipality of Lieto, Southwestern F...

Holistic Health Care

What is it, and how can we achieve it? Summary This paper develops a systematic and logically consistent model of holistic healthcare. Holism refers to an approach to health which acknowledges that health depends upon many interrelated components which interact in such a way that the overall effect constitutes health (or illness). The current understanding of illness is, in contrast, linear and...

Holistic health care?

Health in cities: is a systems approach needed?

This paper reviews the potential utility of using the concepts and tools of systems to understand and act on health in cities. The basic elements of systems approaches and the links between cities as systems and population health as emerging from the functioning of a system are reviewed. The paper also discusses implications of systems thinking for urban health including the development of dyna...