The Holistic Back Care Model

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?

Holistic paediatric diabetes care—evaluation of a new rural model

Optimal management of diabetes includes a multidisciplinary team approach. Diabetes services to children and adolescents in rural settings are variable and currently there are no described models of care that compare favourably with the larger metropolitan multidisciplinary teams. The aim of this study was to explore the feasibility of a new holistic model of care to deliver intensive insulin t...

A Concept Analysis of Holistic Care by Hybrid Model

PURPOSE Even though holistic care has been widely discussed in the health care and professional nursing literature, there is no comprehensive definition of it. Therefore, the aim of this article is to present a concept analysis of holistic care which was developed using the hybrid model. METHODS The hybrid model comprises three phases. In the theoretical phase, characteristics of holistic car...

The Hole in Holistic Patient Care

Life threatening illness and related suffering are arguably situations in which holistic care is the most important. Holism, a century old concept, refers to healing the whole person—body, mind and spirit—rather than solely focusing on the physical suffering and treatment of a disease or condition. Holistic healing is the creation of a harmonious healing balance among the body, mind and spirit ...