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QD22
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Holistic Health ; Health as viewed from the perspective that humans and other organisms function as complete, integrated units rather than as aggregates of separate parts.(MeSH)
BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL a comprehensive or holistic concept of health of the individual comprising biological, psychological, and social dimensions. (Woncadic)
Comprehensive Health Care: Providing for the full range of personal health services for diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and rehabilitation of patients.(MeSH)
Comprehensiveness ; efforts to improve equity in access, community empowerment and participation, social and environmental health determinants, and intersectoral action (Labonté and all.2014)
Comprehensiveness of services: The provision, either directly or indirectly, of a full range of services to meet patients’ health care needs. This includes health promotion, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of common conditions, referral to other clinicians, management of chronic conditions, rehabilitation, palliative care and, in some models, social services (Haggerty et all 2007)
HOLISTIC CARE an approach to patient care in which all the patient's physical, mental, and social factors are always taken into account, rather than just the diagnosed disease with or without psychosocial factors that influence the disease or the result. It allows a total care of the patient. The term is applied explicitly to a range of orthodox and unorthodox methods of patient care.(Woncadic)
Medical generalism is an approach to the delivery of health care that routinely applies a broad holistic perspective to the patient’s problems. Its principles will be needed wherever and whenever people receive care and advice about their health and wellbeing, and all healthcare professionals need to value and be able to draw on this approach when appropriate. The ability to practise as a generalist depends on one’s training, and on the routine use of skills that helps people to understand and live with their illnesses and disabilities, as well as helping them to get the best out of the healthcare options that are available and appropriate for their needs. (Howe A, BJGP 2012)
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C0019844
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