Exploring this Issue: Whole-Person, Whole-Systems Health and Healing

Exploring This Issue: Whole-Person, Whole-Systems Health and Healing

Editorial T his issue of Global Advances in Health and Medicine (GAHMJ) presents a diversity of topics relevant to whole-person, whole-systems health and healing. In one of this issue's original articles, Hathaway et al performed a retrospective analysis of the University of Cincinnati's neonatal integrative therapy services. 1 Hospitalized infants in the neonatal intensive care unit were treat...

Health care for the whole person.

Whole person health for the whole population: one-year evaluation of health coaching.

Chronic diseases drive significant health care utilization and costs in the US. Simultaneously, there is growing evidence that self-care and collaborative decision-making practices are linked to improvements in health-related outcomes and reduced health care costs.In April of 2005, Kaiser Permanente (KP) Georgia implemented a population care management service that included personal health coac...

Healing My Whole Self.

Surviving cancer was the beginning of a long journey to healing my whole self. When I was first diagnosed with breast cancer, I was 39 years old. I had spent most of my life working in a number of high-stress communications positions in Massachusetts and had recently become the press secretary for Boston's mayor, the Honorable Thomas M. Menino. On day one, I had to tell my new boss that I would...

Chaplains' Skills Support Whole-Person Care.

As medical practice slowly becomes more receptive to treating the mind and spirit along with the body, the team model of palliative care is rippling into other disciplines. Qualified chaplains and receptive physicians already are taking the “whole person” approach, and greater acceptance may lead to happier patients. Awareness in the United States is growing that spiritual care is an essential ...