WEEK 1: C1 Consumer Health & CAM Flashcards
analyze this quote: “every man is a builder of a temple, called his body. We are all sculptures and painters, and our material is our flesh and blood and bone” - Thoreau
- You are In control of your health and shaping your body
- The same
way an artist sculpts a sculpture - Your body is an adaptive machine
analyze this quote: “human health transcends purely biological health because it depends primarily on those conscious and deliberate choices by which we select our mode of life and adapt, creatively to its experiences” - Dubos
- Its not just about genetics given when you are born
- Cant choose your genetics or environment born in , but you can choose other things when given more autonomy, social economic status, health choices, etc.
- Key is adaptation, we have control and agency to a certain extent to change overall look at life
Consumer Health
how we purchase and use health products and services, how they have an affect on our health
Why: to improve our health, cure diseases
- Healthcare is more reactive, based mainly on treatment
- People are more reactive instead of proactive
- Preventative measures are easier, but people don’t make it a problem until it actually is one
- You are a product of your environment
Ex. Office vs fitness job
Define Conventional Medicine
known as traditional or orthodox medicine, practices include physical exams, x rays and other exams to aid in diagnoses or treatments, surgical techniques, prescribed medicine and lab tests on blood, urine, etc.
- Heavily based on science and research
- Getting data and research
Recreate the data and replicate, more likely to happen under the same reasons
conventional medicine examples
- Nurses
- Dentists
- Physiotherapy
- Doctors
- Pharmacists
- Psychiatrists
Define Complementary Medicine
Non stream, yet are used along with conventional medicine. May include aromatherapy after surgery, may aid to help with anxiety or acupuncture for addiction recovery
- In addition to mainstream
- Ex. Physiotherapy but adding acupuncture to the treatment (complementary to)
Define Alternative Medicine
considered non stream and are used in place of conventional medicine.
- Using acupuncture to treat not only back and muscle conditions but diseases such as diabetes
- Non allopathic
- Unconventional , nonstream
- Pseudoscience
Define Allopathic Physician
also known as a medical doctor (MD), physicians that have been the mainstream of our traditional medical care
- Example: nurses, social works, dieticians, physical therapist
Define Integrative Health
occurs when there is a coordinated approach to bring alternative medicine and conventional medicine together
- Can be used for many conditions such as pain management, stress relief and management of symptoms
- Combination of conventional, complementary and alternative
- Uses a holistic approach
Define Holistic Health
A concept that concern for health requires a perception of the individual as an integrated system rather than one or more separate parts including physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional.
Pros and cons of holistic health
Pros:
- Assesses multiple factors of a problem
- Mind, body and environmental analysis
- Utilizes a big picture approach
Cons:
- broad perspective making scientific testing difficult
- Overlooks finer details
- Multiple variables make this a complex approach
The CDC reports 5 leading causes of death:
- heart disease
- cancer
- chronic lower respiratory disease
- stroke
- unintentional injuries
define illness
The perception of feeling the symptoms of a disease is considered an illness
WHO definition of health
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity (WHO)
Illness- Avoiding Behaviours and Health Enhancing Behaviours
- People practice health behaviours because they want to avoid getting sick or they want to enhance their health
- People who practice health enhancing behaviours do not live in fear that if they don’t practice health they will acquire some illness or die but because they like they way it makes them feel, function or look
Illness avoiding behaviours versus health enhancing behaviours
illness avoiding:
- avoiding illness is highest priority
minimal goal
- desire immediate or short term results
- time limited activity
- authority dominates
- medical centered motivation
health enhancing:
- high health is #1 priority
- motivated by feeling food, better
- maximal goal
- long term results
- internal control
- accomplishment as a motivator
steve jobs story
- One of the founders of apple
- Got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and used acupuncture, herbalist remedies, change diet to try and get rid of it
- Alternative medicine didn’t work and he didn’t have time to use conventional medicine
- Ended up dying
Similarities and Differences between CAM and Conventional Medicine
- Both conventional medicine and CAM embrace holistic health concepts
○ CAM is more- CAM practices are generally viewed as unorthodox (not evidence based) from the standpoint of scientific medicine as currently taught In medical schools
- Alternative health care is probably more emphatic on the role of the individual in maintaining his or her own health
○ Conventional medicine is now also shifting - Practitioners of conventional medicine must fulfill certain kinds & amounts of training, education and licensing
- Treat symptoms of a disease or some other sick or unhealthy state
- Alternative health care givers embrace a wide variety of possible practices and emphasize the body’s natural self restoration properties
what does CAM stand for
CAM: Complementary and alternative medicine
What did the older website of NCCAM divide therapies in 5 categories
- Alternative medical systems (homeopathic medicine, naturopathic medicine, chiropractic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine)
- Mind body interventions (meditation, prayer, mental healing, art, music, or dance)
- Biologically based therapy (dietary supplements, herbal medicine)
- Manipulative and body based therapies (chiropractic medicine, osteopathic medicine, massage)
- Energy therapies (qigong, Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, pulsed fields, and magnetic fields)
Consumer Bill of Rights - John F Kennedy (6)
- the right to safety
- the right to be informed
- the right to choose
- the right to education
- the right to redress
- the right to be heard
Consumer Protection Act
- The right to be safe from unfair business practices
- The right to be adequately informed about products and transactions
- The right to reasonable access to redress when they have been harmed
Define Caveat Emptor
When the buyer take the risks and is responsible for checking the condition of quality of the item purchased ( Latin - let the buyer beware)
- Confidence man
Define Caveat Venditor
“let the seller beware”
- The principle cautions that the seller is responsible for any problem that the byer might encounter within a service or product
- Sellers responsibility rather than the purchasers to ensure that the goods or services offered for sale are able to deliver their intended purpose
What does it mean to be a health consumer? (3 points)
Healthy People 2020 reads, “Improve the health literacy of the population.” Three objectives related to that goal are as follows:
1. Increase the proportion of persons who report their healthcare provider always gave them easy-to-understand instructions about what to do to take care of their illness or health condition. 2. Increase the proportion of persons who report their healthcare provider always asked them to describe how they will follow the instructions. 3. Increase the proportion of persons who report their healthcare providers’ office always offered help in filling out a form.
what do Barrett and colleagues describe consumer health as
“encompassing all aspects of the marketplace related to the purchase of health products and services.”
Define Acupuncture
A traditional Chinese medicine treatment that uses stainless steel needles at specific points in the body to increase the flow of life energy known as Qi or Chi.
Define Allopathic Medicine
The traditional or conventional system of medicine that uses drugs, surgery, or radiation to prevent or treat diseases.
Define Ayurveda
A traditional system of medicine of India. The word Ayurveda is a Sanskrit word that means science of life or sciences of lifespan.
Define Biofeedback
A technique used to train people to control their own involuntary body processes such as heart rate, respirations, and even brain waves. It requires watching a monitor of some sort in order to change the rate using mental control
Development Assistance for Health (DAH)
Publicly financed assistance available for underdeveloped countries in the form of financial resources and improved effectiveness of resources
Homeopathic Medicine
Medicines prepared by extreme dilution. The fundamental concept of homeopathic is that “like cures like.” Substances in the preparations are thought to stimulate the body’s own healing response
Naturopathic Medicine
A system of medical practices that relies on more natural healing methods (herbs, massage, exercise). It encompasses a belief in the body’s ability to heal itself
other examples of CAM therapies
- prayer healing, faith healing, spiritual
- alexander technique
- tai chi
reflexology - orthomolecular nutrition
- biofeedback
- clinical ecology
- psychic & occult groups
