Health and Healing
Disease, health and healing: aspects of indigenous health in Western Australia and Queensland 1900-1940
... · universalistic and anthropological particularistic models of causation' .10 In writing a history of disease, health and healing among indigenous people in Western Australia and Queensl[r] ...
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Dancing intercorporeality: a health humanities perspective on dance as a healing art
... the health humanities – and we should note here that the medical/health humanities should not be thought of as a discipline but rather as a multidisciplinary, interdis- ciplinary or perhaps even ...
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A Clever People: Indigenous healing traditions and Australian mental health futures
... Indigenous healing, research into Indigenous Australian healing has tended to focus upon and celebrate the ...women healing as a group within their society, working through ceremony and daily ...
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Traditional Healing Practices and Holistic Health: The Implication for Christian Families in South West Region of Nigeria
... (traditional healing practices) must not prevent one from attaining health, rather it is to be treated in a delicate manner so that its effects on health do not become a hindrance to the solution of ...
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Historicizing Health Inequities: Healing the vestiges of residential schooling
... person. Since the origin of Psychology is European and rooted in Enlightenment ideologies, the ideal normal human is based on, and steeped in, Eurocentric Enlightenment conceptions of normalcy. The DSM is widely ...
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Curing and Healing: Vital Elements of Catholic Health Care
... Catholic health care the whole person is care for; body and soul, as bearer of the imago Dei and hopeful for eternal life, as our neighbour whom we love as we do our own self, and as another ...Catholic ...
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Embodied health practices: The use of Traditional Healing and Conventional Medicine in a North Norwegian Community
... traditional healing practices found in “the cultural melting pot” of Nordreisa will according to Arthur Kleinman’s (1980) model of health and care systems belong to the folk sector, where one can find ...
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Local perception of illness and healing: Rural health practices and development in Bangladeshi village
... Bangladesh, health is regarded as ‘an important index of human development’ (Government of Bangladesh, ...maternal health along with combating diseases with a commitment to ensure environmental ...
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Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa
... Kenyan health resources as 30% of all outpatient appoint- ments and 19% of inpatient admissions are due to malaria (Republic of Kenya ...public health globally and leaders of the G8 countries acknowledged ...
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Can the visual arts benefit health and healing?
... Overall, the positive results gave the impression that there would have been little room for the improvement of participants' emotional state through pleasant pictures on the walL The ty[r] ...
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Institutional pluralism and interorganisational relations in local health care provision in Uganda: Institutionalised pathologies or healing organisations?
... by health professionals and included lying on the bed, (partial) undressing, use o f stethoscope, blood pressure check, laboratory examination, temperature check, touching, and examining eyes, throat, and ...the ...
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Rongoā Māori (traditional Māori healing) through the eyes of Māori healers : sharing the healing while keeping the tapu : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand
... traditional healing can be attributed to the repeal of the Tohunga Suppression Act 1964 as well as a resurgence in interest in all aspects of MĈori culture including a call for greater autonomy and self- ...
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‘The threads in his mind have torn’: conceptualization and treatment of mental disorders by neo-prophetic Christian healers in Accra, Ghana
... popular healing activi- ties, we do acknowledge that other church denomina- tions (such as AICs or western mission churches) may have provided different perspectives on mental ...
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Use of traditional and complementary medicine among Norwegian cancer patients in the seventh survey of the Tromsø study
... traditional healing called “reading” where the healer read a prayer over the illness [15, ...distant healing or by visiting a traditional healer who is mostly non-professional and a ...23]. Health ...
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Healing of Hymenal Injuries: Implications for Child Health Care Professionals
... A goal of the article was to assist with the timing of the hymenal injuries. The retrospective design, with varying periods to follow-up, made this difficult. The authors found, however, varying patterns of ...
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Self-care practices and experiences of people living with HIV not receiving antiretroviral therapy in an urban community of Lusaka, Zambia: implications for HIV treatment programmes
... physical health maintenance, psychological well-being and healthy lifestyle self-care practices to maintain physical health and mitigate HIV-related ...faith healing and self-prescription of ...
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Clinical utility of foam dressings in wound management: a review
... heavy health care cost involved in the treatment of chronic wounds, there is an increasing interest in investigating the efficacy of various wound dressings to identify products that most efficiently result in ...
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Healing journey: a qualitative analysis of the healing experiences of Americans suffering from trauma and illness
... that healing was not an isolated event that happened at a particular point in ...Rather, healing typically took place in fits and starts over an extended period of ...to healing was different for ...
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Measuring the importance of health domains in psoriasis – discrete choice experiment versus rating scales
... possible healing” may suggest lower treatment efficacy beyond what the subordinate treatment goals described with wordings like “to have no fear that disease will become worse” and “to find a clear diagnosis ...
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Healing environments: classical usic in the waiting room of a mental health care facility
... of healing environments in health care settings is presently becoming increasingly ...important. Healing environments aim at creating a setting which promotes the well-being of clients “by reducing ...
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