Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public A Summary of the February 2009 Summit (2009) / Chapter Skim
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7 Concluding Comments
7 Concluding Comments
Pages 155-164
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He liked the notion that there would be an individualized plan for health over a life span. George Halvorson called this a toolkit that can integrate all health and care processes and that connects a person seamlessly with all the health care professionals.
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Individuals and organizations are inevitably self-centered when it comes to their own interests, he said. This natural tendency may create significant interprofessional friction that could interfere with advancing not only integrative health care as a whole, but also the common goals that have been identified.
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They found that a multidisciplinary team of health care providers is needed to address a disease's underlying causes, such as maladaptive responses to stress and tension, poor nutrition, and sedentary lifestyle. Now, the country is on the threshold of changing the concept of primary care, she said, and it might even be expanded to include nurse practitioners, homeopaths, naturopaths, and others.
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But, he noted, people with low self-esteem may be hard to reach with messages about taking part in their own health. Integrative health care is built on the idea of personalization.
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Goldblatt, Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care To improve health and have a positive impact on lives, the social determinants of health, especially education, must be considered first, said Goldblatt. Education affects where people fit into society, their employment, and their access to health care.
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Licensure is valuable not only for doctors, nurses, and allied health care providers, but also for some complementary and alternative medicine practitioners -- terms that Goldblatt suggests may be outdated. In describing potential participants in a person's health care team, it would be better to refer to them as licensed care providers without regard to discipline.
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Tunis observed that the summit exposed a great deal of shared sympathy and belief in the value of integrative health care, but not much skepticism, which surprised him. He noted that not only was the level of sympathy high, but also that there was a willingness to be helpful in terms of moving things forward.
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A number of participants raised significant challenges and highlighted points from the summit presentations and discussions that were particularly salient to them. Some participants were gratified to find out how much evidence, from diverse fields, supports the concept of integrative health care.
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However, those images were probably different in virtually every mind. Initially, he had hoped that the presentations and discussion could transform the Rorschach into the clarity of an Ansel Adams photograph that would give everyone a precise view of what integrative health care is.
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As Fineberg said, "What we are seeking most deeply in health and health care is really the same as what we are seeking in our lives." This individual-centered approach takes into account the many components that touch lives and affect health, Snyderman noted. People are surrounded by family, friends, and larger social groups who can influence them, positively and negatively; they are exposed to various environmental factors that can help or hurt them; and with integrative health care, they can interact with a health system that can, over time, work with them to sustain health and well-being and minimize disease.
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