HLSC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Diabetes Canada, Herbalism, Tai Chi
24 Feb 2018
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Centers for disease control and prevention (us cdc) Disease-dedicated sites: canadian diabetes association, heart and stroke foundation. Premise: disease is caused by identifiable physical factors. Research performed under rigorous universally- applied conditions reveals: incidence and prevalence of disease, risk factors for development of disease, risk: benefit ratio of treatments for disease. Focused on harmonising mind, body, spirit to regain health. Therapies: mind-body: yoga, hypnosis, taijiquan, biological herbal remedies, energy-based: reiki manipulative, manual healing: chiropractic. Therapies and medical practices apart from conventional medicine: most commonly used cam therapies, relaxation techniques, meditation and mindfulness, herbal medicine, massage, chiropractic. Allopathic medicine: pharmacotherapies or physical interventions used in conventional medicine to treat disease. Cam: integrative medicine, combination of allopathic and complementary/alternative medical practices: implies along with . The canadian healthcare system: the canadian health act; law since 1984. Mandates provision of medically necessary hospital care, physician services and dental surgery requiring hospitalization (health canada, 2008: public administration, comprehensiveness, universality, portability, accessibility.
