Holistic Health or Holistic means (for the First Business Plan) a philosophy of medical care that views the following three components of Lifestyle Behaviour as interconnected approaches to treatment:
1. physical
Improving
Personal
Health And Fitness,
Materially
Alter Lifestyle,
Benefit
From Effects Of Exercise Induced Drugs,
Extend Labour Force Participation,
Increased Tax Contributions,
reduced
Health Care
Costs
and
Reduced
Carbon Emissions
2.
mental
LCCBSGs,
Cognitive
Development,
applying
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy,
improved
Coping Skills,
enhanced
Cognitive
Skills,
increased
Family Unit Cohesion,
improved
Sense Of Community,
Changed Social Values,
Empowered Adults To Better
Control Their Stress Responses,
facilitate
Exceptional
Community Contributions
and
make possible -
* Abled Participants Assistants;
* Community Support Providers; and
3.
spiritual
aspects of life
Many Australians follow one of the
Five Major Religions
which have far more similarities than differences, not limited
to peace, tranquillity and loving one's neighbour.
"Sport
has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire in a way
that little else does. It is more powerful
than Governments in breaking down barriers. It laughs in the face of
discrimination."
Nelson Mandela
While frequently associated with alternative medicine, Holistic Health may also be used in medical practice as part of a broad view of patient care.
Holistic Health is not itself a method of treatment, but is an approach to how treatment should be applied. Holistic concepts of health and fitness view achieving and maintaining good health as requiring more than just taking care of the various singular components that make up the physical body, additionally incorporating aspects such as emotional and spiritual Wellbeing.
The modern medical establishment has relatively recently begun to integrate Holism into the mainstream health care system.
Australia
The Australasian Integrative Medicine Association within the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners conducted the 15th International Holistic Health Conference 9-11 Oct 2009 at Novotel St Kilda, Melbourne with the banner "The definitive evidence-based integrative medicine conference”.
The Australasian Integrative Medicine Association website provides a webpage which lists -
(i) over 100 Australian GPs who are members; and
(ii) its Services
University of Queensland Sports and Physical Recreation Association offers a Holistic Health website Spoilt For Choice with a vision to "create communities built on active minds and healthy bodies".
United States
The first National Conference on Holistic Health was conducted by the Health Optimizing Institute and The Mandala Society with the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in June 1975. This continued there for ten years with about three thousand health professionals participating each year. After the second year it was not under the Medical School.
The recording of these Conferences that was the emerging of Holistic Health in American is in the nine volumes of The Journal Of Holistic Health provided by the Mandala Society. Over 150 authorities in aspects of Holistic Health participated and are recorded in the Journals.
The Mandala Society Conferences and work supported the creation of the Association For Holistic Health in 1976, the Holistic Medical Association in 1978 and The American Holistic Nurses Association,1979.
Many regional Holistic Health Associations followed with the American Holistic Health Association being established in 1989.
Historically, Holistic health has not been widely practiced in North America. According to Robbie Davis-Floyd in “Medical Anthropology- Modern Midwives, Issue 20”, she states that there are “links between tradition, ancestry, home remedies, the earth and the biomedical systems”.
The holistic process offers individuals the opportunity to be the creators of their own reality of health, through an understanding of all levels of health and a balanced lifestyle.
Holistic Health in the USA is now moving more into the medical mainstream as seen in the work of the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Veterans Medical Centers provide a comprehensive patient manual Healthwise for life, VA Desert Pacific Healthcare Network, Fourth Edition 2000
The American Holistic Nurses Association is playing a significant role in moving Holistic Health into the mainstream for responsible health care.
Holistic Health care is simply about responsible health care. Responsible health care is working fully with the whole persons Spirit, Mind and Body.
“Dimensions of Holistic healing- New frontiers in the treatment of the whole person”, the authors define Holistic health as “treating the whole person, helping the person to bring the mental, emotional, physical, social, and spiritual dimensions of his or her being into greater harmony, using the basic principles and elements of holistic healing and, as much as possible, placing reliance on treatment modalities that foster the self regenerative and self reparatory processes of natural healing,” (Otto and Knight, 1979 p. 3).
Reflections on Some Spiritual Aspects of Life Threatening Illness by Robert Magrisso, MD
Some of above information sourced from Wikipedia