AHRQ releases toolkits to help providers and patients implement safer health care practices

2008 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Care Practices

The call to Hawaii: Holistic practitioners’ perspectives of their communicative practices of healing

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Geist-Martin ◽  
Catherine Becker ◽  
Summer Carnett ◽  
Katherine Slauta
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Holistic Health Care ◽  
Mutual Action

The big island of Hawaii has been named the healing island – a place with varied interpretations of healing, health, and a wide range of holistic health care practices. This research explores the perspectives of holistic providers about the communicative practices they believe are central to their interactions with patients. Intensive ethnographic interviews with 20 individuals revealed that they perceive their communication with clients as centered on four practices, specifically: (a) reciprocity – a mutual action or exchange in which both the practitioner and patient are equal partners in the healing process; (b) responsibility – the idea that, ultimately, people must heal themselves; (c) forgiveness – the notion that healing cannot progress if a person holds the burden of anger and pain; and (d) balance – the idea that it is possible to bring like and unlike things together in unity and harmony. The narratives revealed providers’ ontological assumptions about mind-body systems and the rationalities they seek to resist in their conversations with patients.

Impact of Religion on Traditional Health Care Practices Among the Lepchas of Upper and Lower Lingthem of Upper Dzongu, Sikkim, India

2021 ◽  
pp. 2455328X2199571
Author(s):  
Manisha Thapa ◽  
Pinak Tarafdar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Traditional Health ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Modern Health Care ◽  
Concept Of Health ◽  
Traditional Health Care ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
The Village

In all cultures and regions, the concept of health varies, based on the type of environment and prevalent sociocultural traditions. The present study is conducted among the Lepchas of the village of Lingthem divided into two sectors—Upper and Lower Lingthem, Upper Dzongu, North Sikkim. This population comprising Buddhist Lepchas residing away from the mainstream through poor infrastructural facilities still maintain ethnomedical health care practices without influence of major Indian healing systems. Living in the area of Dzongu exclusively inhabited by Lepchas revival of ancient cultural practices is evident among Lepchas of Lingthem. The structure of religious beliefs prevalent among the Lepchas, including traditional animistic as well as Buddhist practices, greatly influence forms of treatment sought for specific ailments. Even today, the use and maintenance of traditional health care with syncretized Buddhist religious belief among residents of Lingthem act as a vital source for understanding the influence of religion on traditional health care practices. Despite the presence of a few modern health care agencies, the traditional treatment of Bongthing (Lepcha shaman) and Buddhist monks remain widely popular as primary means of health care.

Over 150 potentially low‐value health care practices: an Australian study

2013 ◽  
Vol 198 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-84
Author(s):  
Jane S Hocking ◽  
Basil Donovan ◽  
Rebecca Guy
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Australian Study ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Care Practices

scholarly journals CONTINUING EDUCATION AND HUMANIZATION IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PRACTICES

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Tereza Soares Rezende Lopes ◽  
Célia Maria Gomes Labegalini ◽  
Maria Elisabeth Kleba da Silva ◽  
Vanessa Denardi Antoniassi Baldissera
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Care Practices

scholarly journals Health care of sexual and gender minorities: an integrative literature review

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (suppl 6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jedison Feliciano Silva ◽  
Gabriela Maria Cavalcanti Costa
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Sexual And Gender Minorities ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Gender Minorities ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
And Gender

ABSTRACT Objectives: to describe health care practices aimed at lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transvestites, and transsexuals. Methods: an integrative literature review based on systematic steps, in MEDLINE, LILACS AND SciELO databases and/or electronic libraries. It was held from September to November 2018, with articles published between 2012 and 2017, available in full in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, addressing health care to that population group. Results: fourteen articles were included. Most of the articles were about the trajectory of individuals within health services and showed limitations and obstacles in the use of these services. Final Considerations: there is evidence that factors related to organization of services, attitude of professionals, stigma, and discrimination experienced undermine health care practices. Therefore, it is essential to carry out educational activities in health services and educational institutions.

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