scholarly journals Integrating traditional medicine with biomedicine towards a patient-centered healthcare system

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Xu ◽  
Ke-ji Chen
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Patient Centered

scholarly journals Linking the Unitary Paradigm to Policy through a Synthesis of Caring Science and Integrative Nursing

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary S. Koithan ◽  
Mary Jo Kreitzer ◽  
Jean Watson
Keyword(s):  
Patient Care ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Policy ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Nursing Knowledge ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Caring Science ◽  
Patient Care Delivery

The principles of integrative nursing and caring science align with the unitary paradigm in a way that can inform and shape nursing knowledge, patient care delivery across populations and settings, and new healthcare policy. The proposed policies may transform the healthcare system in a way that supports nursing praxis and honors the discipline’s unitary paradigm. This call to action provides a distinct and hopeful vision of a healthcare system that is accessible, equitable, safe, patient-centered, and affordable. In these challenging times, it is the unitary paradigm and nursing wisdom that offer a clear path forward.

Person-centered medicine from a complex adaptive systems perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Sturmberg
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Patient Centeredness ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Illness And Disease

Miles and Mezzich have proposed person-centered medicine as the way forward to overcome the rapidly escalating crisis of dehuminisation of medical care and the healthcare system at large. The crisis in medical care is caused by a Zeitgeist characterised by 2 themes – conquering disease and profit maximising activities. Overcoming this crisis requires a change of the prevailing worldview and its reductionist thinking about discrete diseases to a worldview that recognises the complexities arising from the interconnections and interdependencies between all facets of a person’s life – his health and illness and disease trajectories. As Kant said: each man has his particular way of being in good health.This paper presents 5 themes that argue for a complexity based framework to achieve a person/patient-centered understanding of health and healthcare: (1) health, illness and disease are complex adaptive states that impact personhood; (2) healthcare must grow health; (3) healing results from personal sense-making and must be fostered; (4) complex adaptive systems thinking allows an exploration and understanding of personal and community health issues and (5) person/patient-centeredness results in an effective and efficient healthcare system.A person/patient-centered focus, the person/patient at the centre of concern, will result in a seamlessly integrated healthcare system. Such a system will show great diversity between communities, each having emerged as a result of best adaptation to local circumstances. Such a system will have substantial benefits – for the person (in terms of staying healthy) / patient (in terms of regaining his health), the community and the economy.

scholarly journals Traditional usage of medicinal plants by Temiar tribes in the State of Kelantan, Peninsular Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
Pakhriazad Hassan Zaki ◽  
Seca Gandaseca ◽  
Noorhayati Mohd Rashidi
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Traditional medicine has deep historical linkages and cultural roots. In a rural community, it is practice based on the ethnological, medical and heritage of the practitioners. Temiar indigenous tribe of Orang Asli in Kelantan, have their traditional way of beliefs and healing practices. This study examines the remedies using medicinal plants and herbs among the tribe members in Kampung Pasik, Kelantan, Malaysia. A structured questionnaire and in-depth interviews were conducted with 250 respondents. A total of 18 species of medicinal plants was recorded preferably used by the tribes. Results indicate that traditional phytoremedies practices play an important role in helping their healthcare system with the help of the tribe healers. Cultivated medicinal plant species represent 94% of the source, whereas 4.4% were found wild in the forest and 1.6% grown around their settlement. This study revealed that five preparations methods such as boiling (27.56%), pounded (27.45%), squeeze (21.60%), drying (14.17%) or concoction of various part of medicinal plants (9.22%). The most applied were by drinking (35.29%), chewing (32.70%) and 19.89% rubbing, poultice (6.40%) and shower ingredients (5.72%).

scholarly journals Healthcare experience design: A conceptual and methodological framework for understanding the effects of usability on the access, delivery, and receipt of healthcare

2020 ◽  
pp. 505-520
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Design Framework ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Usability Problems ◽  
Quadruple Aim ◽  
Healthcare Experience ◽  
New Framework

Health information technology (HIT) is a key component of healthcare today and has the potential to help support the quadruple aim of patient-centered healthcare. The access, delivery, and receipt of healthcare involves many stakeholders interacting with different HIT, and the usability of HIT is known to impact the acceptance and adoption of HIT, as well as health outcomes of populations. Understanding the influence that various individual and contextual factors have on the usability of HIT is challenging because of the network of interactions between humans and technology that occur in the same or different contexts within a unique healthcare system. Yet, it is important to identify usability problems in order to be able to design and implement HIT. This article begins by describing the current use of HIT with respect to the healthcare landscape. Next, usability is defined and demonstrated to play a critical role in users’ acceptance and adoption of HIT. The remainder of the article describes a new framework called, healthcare experience design. The healthcare experience design framework models the healthcare experience, which is defined as the composite of all of an individual’s interactions with other humans and HIT. The healthcare experience design framework is a useful conceptual model and methodological approach to identify usability problems in the healthcare system, and its practical application is illustrated using an artificial use case.

scholarly journals Immunomodulator in Traditional Healthcare System

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shweta Saboo
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Active Constituent ◽  
Natural Sources ◽  
Ancient Time ◽  
Life Threatening

In all over world the importance of traditional medicine for the use as treatment against of life threatening diseases is acceptable. Due to heavy potency and availability of the natural sources it’s easy to utilize this traditional knowledge for treatment, prevention or mitigation against diseases. In this chapter we discuss about different potent Immuno-modulating drugs which majorly act as immune stimulant. From the ancient time these drugs having potent active constituent which shown prominent effect in treatment of diseases. Considering efficiency with safety plant derived drugs having very global market this review discusses immunomodulating plant with their active constituent.

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