Søren Ventegodt, MD, MMedSci, EU-MScCAM, Niels Jørgen Andersen, MSc, Isack Kandel, MA, PhD and Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc Quality of Life Research Center, Classensgade 11C, 1 sal, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark; Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark; Scandinavian Foundation for Holistic Medicine, Sandvika, Norway; Interuniversity Colle...

Søren Ventegodt, MD, MMedSci, EU-MScCAM, Niels Jørgen Andersen, MSc, Isack Kandel, MA, PhD and Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine and Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark; Scandinavian Foundation for Holistic Medicine, Sandvika, Norway; Interuniversity College, Graz, Austria; Faculty of S...

The small acmaeid limpet Patelloida lat istr~gata Angas and clumps of macroalgae are found in midshore intertidal regions dominated by barnacles. Interactions between limpet and algae were investigated experimentally to determine the effect of the herbivore on microalgae (this term includes propagules of macroalgae) as well as on macroalgal plants, and also the influence of both forms of algae ...

BACKGROUND There is a growing recognition that many public health issues are complex and can be best understood by examining the relationship between human health and the health of the ecosystems in which people live. Two approaches, One Health and Ecosystem Approaches to Health (EcoHealth), can help us to better understand these intricate and complex connections, and appear to hold great promi...

Holistic nursing care is widely advocated and is espoused in the philosophy of the South African Nursing Council. This concept is unclear, variously interpreted and poorly understood in paediatric nursing. This study was undertaken to examine the meaning of holistic nursing care and to develop a framework for holistic nursing care, which can be utilised in nurse education settings and in clinic...

There is a growing interest among health care providers, especially professional nurses to promote caring-healing approaches in patient care and self-care. Health care environments are places of human caring and holistic nurses are helping to lead the way that contemporary health care institutions must become holistic places of healing. The practice of Reiki as well as other practices can assis...