scholarly journals AYURVEDA - A RAY OF HOPE IN VIRAL PANDEMIC OR COVID

2020 ◽  
Vol p4 (06) ◽  
pp. 2494-2497
Author(s):  
Meenakshi Shukla ◽  
Bipin Kumar Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Therapeutic Strategy ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Medical Systems ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Long Life ◽  
Biomedical System

India is known for its traditional medicinal systems—Ayurveda, Siddha, and Unani. Medical systems are mentioned even in the ancient Vedas and other scriptures. The Ayurvedic concept appeared and developed between 2500 and 500 BC in India. The literal meaning of Ayurveda is “science of life,” because ancient Indian system of health care focused on views of man and his illness. It has been pointed out that the posi-tive health means metabolically well-balanced human beings. Ayurveda is also called the “science of lon-gevity” because it offers a holistic approach to live healthy and long life. It offers programs to rejuvenate the body through diet and nutrition. It offers treatment methods to cure many common diseases along with newer form of viral pandemics. Despite of worldwide efforts, trials of many drugs and in path of inventing vaccine. The COVID-19 requires an urgent harnessing of all knowledge/system of medicine which can bring proven prophylaxis & therapeutic strategy. Ayurveda can serve the humanity, but it requires a prag-matic plan for intervention in this time of crisis along with immediate implementation. It is pertinent to reit-erate that participation of Ayurveda in addressing COVID-19 challenge should be seen as extension of health care services and support to biomedical system.

The Management of Idiopathic Chronic Pain: A Holistic Approach

1981 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 429-431
Author(s):  
H. Brent Richard ◽  
Gerald H. Flamm
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Psychosomatic Medicine ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Secondary Gain ◽  
Biopsychosocial Approach ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Symptom Formation

The evaluation and treatment of the patient with idiopathic chronic pain traditionally has involved a sequence of studies first by the internist, then the neurologist, and finally the psychiatrist. This has resulted in an overutilization of costly health care services and may paradoxically have helped to promote symptom chronicity. In keeping with recent developments in the field of psychosomatic medicine, a coordinated biopsychosocial approach is advocated with the identification and amelioration of the multiple determinants of symptom formation in each of these interrelated sub-systems. A case is presented in which the application of this holistic approach appeared to help curtail the overuse of health care services and at the same time helped to diminish psychosocial reinforcers in the form of secondary gain.

scholarly journals Video Retrieval System for Meniscal Surgery to Improve Health Care Services

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Sana Amanat ◽  
Muhammad Idrees ◽  
Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan ◽  
Zahoor Rehman ◽  
Hangbae Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Retrieval System ◽  
Video Retrieval ◽  
Meniscal Tear ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Improve Health Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Meniscal Surgery ◽  
Improve Health

Meniscal surgery is considered the most general orthopedic process that deals with the treatment of meniscus tears for human health care. It leads to a communal contusion to the cartilage that stabilizes and cushions the knee joints of human beings. Such tears can be classified into different categories based on age group, region, and occupation. Further, a large number of sportsmen and heavy weightlifters even in developed countries are affected by meniscus injuries. These patients are subjected to arthroscopic surgery, and during surgical treatment, the perseverance of meniscus is a very crucial task. Current research provides a significant ratio of meniscal tear patients around the globe, the critical expanse is considered as having strikingly risen with a mean annual of 0.066% due to surgery failure. To decumbent this ratio, an innovative training mechanism is proposed through video retrieval system in this research. This research work is focussed on developing a corpus and video retrieval system for meniscus surgery. Using the proposed system, surgeons can access guidance by watching the videos of surgeries performed by an expert and their seniors. The proposed system is comprised of four approaches to the spatiotemporal methodology to improve health care services. It entails key point, statistical modeling, PCA-scale invariant feature transform (SIFT), and PCA-Gaussian mixture model (GMM) with a combination of sparse-optical flow. The real meniscal surgery dataset is used for testing purposes and evaluation. The results conclude that using PCA-SIFT approach improves the results with an average precision of 0.78.

Cultural Conservation of Medicinal Plant Use in the Ozarks

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Nolan ◽  
Michael Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Medical Systems ◽  
Plant Use ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Modern Health Care ◽  
Cultural Conservation ◽  
Socioeconomic And Demographic Factors

While a number of recent health care studies have focused on the availability of modern health care services among rural U.S. populations, the commensurate study of access to folk medical systems has been relatively neglected. In this paper we explore the cultural conservation of folk medicinal plant use in 14 communities across the Ozark Mountain region of Arkansas and Missouri. Six relevant socioeconomic and demographic factors are examined in relation to the number of medicinal plant applications reported by expert informants in each locale. Using a multiple correlation and regression analysis, we find that the preservation of traditional medicine and praxis in the Ozarks is inversely related to community "delocalization." It is suggested that the survival of esoteric, albeit dynamic, medical knowledge and praxis among rural populations ultimately depends upon sustaining biological and cultural diversity.

scholarly journals Effect of the Implementation of the Family Physician Program 2015 on Fair Accessibility for People to Health Care Services in the Sistan Region

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Sarani ◽  
Azizollah Arbabisarjou ◽  
Soleyman Saravani ◽  
Ali Miri ◽  
Aziz Shahrakivahed
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Family Physician ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Family Doctor ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The Family

<p>Equitable access to primary health care is an indispensable right and a basic need of all human beings. Currently, the development of any society is judged based on the level of public access to primary health care services. This comparative study attempted to examine the fairness accessibility of people in Sistan to health care services through Family Physician Program 2015.</p><p>This was a descriptive, analytical research focusing on the level of equitable public access to primary health care in Sistan. Samples were taken from all the service-providing centers. Data were collected through HNIS software, network management center to analyze the gathered data. The results showed that prior to the implementation of the family doctor plan (before 2005), there was a doctor for every 9545 people, a midwife for every 10,000 people and one paramedic for 1,111 people. After beginning the family doctor plan, the figures showed that there was one doctor or MD for every 3387 people and one midwife for every 2916 people, and one health worker for every 549 rural residents. The implementation of the family physician program was an opportunity for the health system in Sistan region, where the appropriate resources management and equitable distribution of health care services throughout the region could facilitate accessibility to identical services.</p>

scholarly journals How Do Health, Care Services Consumption and Lifestyle Factors Affect the Choice of Health Insurance Plans in Switzerland?

Risks ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Veronika Kalouguina ◽  
Joël Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Lifestyle Factors ◽  
The Body ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Insurance Plan ◽  
Health Care Consumption ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Swiss Health

In compulsory health insurance in Switzerland, policyholders can choose two main features, the level of deductible and the type of plan. Deductibles can be chosen among six levels, which range from CHF 300 to 2500. While the coverage and benefits are identical, insurers offer several plans where policyholders must first call a medical hotline, consult their family doctor, or visit a doctor from a defined network. The main benefit of higher deductibles and insurance plans with limitations is lower premiums. The insureds’ decisions to opt for a specific cover depend on observed and unobserved characteristics. The aim of this research is to understand the correlation between insurance plan choices and lifestyle through the state of health and medical care consumption in the setting of Swiss mandatory health insurance. To do so, we account for individual health and medical health care consumption as unobserved variables employing structural equation modeling. Our empirical analysis is based on data from the Swiss Health Survey wherein lifestyle factors like the body mass index, diet, physical activity, and commuting mode are available. From the 9301 recorded observations, we find a positive relationship between having a “healthy” lifestyle, a low consumption of doctors’ services, and choosing a high deductible, as well as an insurance plan with restrictions. Conversely, higher health care services’ usage triggers the choice of lower deductibles and standard insurance plans.

scholarly journals Involvement of Cloud Computing and IoT in the Field of Health Care

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Hareesh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing is finding is a big part of our lifestyle, planning to upgrade personal satisfaction by partnering with various shrewd gadgets, innovations, and applications. Generally, the fields of IoT and cloud computing considers the mechanization of everything around the world. Presently scientists have discovered that there is a reasonably big utilization of IoT and cloud in the field of the health care industry. In between the panoply of uses empowered by the Internet of Things (IoT), brilliant and associated health care services play a significant role. The arrangement of network sensors, either exhausted on the body or incorporated into our living environment which makes the processing of information demonstrative of our physical and emotional well-being. Such data can achieve a positive disruptive shift in the human services, collected consistently, totaled, and adequately mined. This study exhibits the significance of the Internet of Things and Cloud in the field of the Healthcare Industry.

scholarly journals Is it ethical for a Christian to treat depression with anti-depressants?

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Jooste
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Common Humanity ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
The Church ◽  
Do So

In this essay I consider whether it is right for a Christian to use an anti-depressant to treat depression. All human beings are responsible to image God in a moral and dignified manner as mortal creatures living in a broken world. It is not easy to do so in our modern culture of narcissism and therapy, which encourages the abuse of medicine. The calling of the Christian, however, extends beyond the ethics of a common humanity. The disciple of Christ suffers by virtue of living in a fallen world, but also because of her baptism into the death of Christ. Like Jesus, believers suffer first and then find glory. Suffering and death are, paradoxically, God’s means of accomplishing and furthering salvation. In light of the body and soul components of depression, and in view of the Christian vocation of suffering, the use of anti-depressants invites careful reflection. In this essay I argue that in some cases it is appropriate to incorporate the likes of Prozac into a holistic approach to treating depression. I set forth my case in four parts. First, I show how depression is part of the plight of humanity broken in body and soul, but not without God’s mercy extended through health care and the cross. Secondly, consideration is given to the Christian’s call to and benefit from a life of cross-shaped suffering. Thirdly, I argue that the Christian mind must guard against a theology of glory clothed in the therapeutic narcissism of our age. Finally, I set forth a recovery programme grounded in the sacred means of the church and the God-given helps of modern medical science.

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