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Evolution of Sickness and Healing
WEBThis evolutionary view of sickness and healing is what maintains the unity of my approach. In my formulation they constitute linked facets of a unique human adaptation developed during the biological evolution of the hominid line and expressed culturally in relation to the changing historical contingencies of social organization and complexity.
Actived: Just Now
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PROMOTING HUMAN WELLNESS
WEBconcept recently appears to be achieving greater credibility. Documents such as the Lalonde Report 4 and the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion,5 as well as the growing use of the term “health promotion” (often in connection with disease prevention), indicate a fundamental change in thinking about health.4, 5 That change reflects socially …
PROMOTING HUMAN WELLNESS
WEBAs many as 40% of men and 20% of women have serum cholesterol levels less than 240 mg/dl. One analysis considered the benefits of population-wide heart disease prevention programs in California and Finland. Some of these programs have been criticized because they reduce serum cholesterol by only 1% to 4%.
PROMOTING HUMAN WELLNESS
WEBover the past 30 years has been prompted by several societal developments and concerns. During the 1960s, the U.S. surgeon general's reports on smoking and health and the health consequences of smoking (U.S. Public Health Service, 1964, 1967) gave official, widespread recognition to the fact that a behavioral factor, cigarette smoking, is a cause …
Power and Illness
WEBness and death. Preventing and curing them properly had priority in health policy. Following the advice of academic physicians, policy makers—mainly philanthropists and officials of state and local government—supported research; increased public health work in surveillance, prevention, and treatment; and, most important, subsidized a rapid …
PROMOTING HUMAN WELLNESS
WEBtropical diseases to the locale, residents must also be alert to infectious diseases thought to have been controlled years ago. For tuberculosis, for example, the case rate in the 0- to 13-year-old age range in 1991 was 9.6 per 100,000 (48 cases), with an overall case rate of 15.1 per 100,000 (390 cases) in 1991 (San Diego County Department of Health, 1991).
Ethics in an Epidemic
WEBabout and obtain that information. But without a policy of routine testing of all health workers and without formal assurance by health administrators (or private health workers) at one discrete, discreet point in a patient's health care about all the persons who will be involved in that care, exercising a putative right to such information can only be …
The Romance of American Psychology
WEBThe abundant and ever-increasing funds that the NIMH offered to psychological professionals were an important reason for the healthy economy in mental health fields in the 1950s and 1960s. During 1950, its first year of operation, the NIMH budget was $8.7 million. Ten years later, it was over $100 million, and by 1967, it was $315 million. [ 30]
PROMOTING HUMAN WELLNESS
WEBcolleagues (1990) demonstrated that, in fact, medical care costs in Boston were nearly twice as high as they were in New Haven. Figure 3.2 shows the distribution of costs in Connecticut service areas and in Massachusetts services areas in the 1970s. In 1975, Medicare was paying $324 per recipient per month in Boston and only $155 per month …
AIDS "d0e1869"
WEBSyphilis can be transmitted by body fluids during sexual contact, and by blood transfusions during the early stages of infection. It can be contracted by health workers after clinical examination of infectious lesions, and can occasionally be transmitted by contact with contaminated articles.
The Romance of American Psychology
WEBCalled the National Neuropsychiatric Institute Act when it was first introduced in Congress in March 1945, the legislation's final title incorporated the term "mental health," an alteration that captured the pivotal role of World War II and its marked clinical drift toward normalization. Indeed, leading figures in wartime clinical work were
The Social Importance of Self-Esteem
WEBforce benefits from both the wisdom and the inspiration offered by history. Leaders, poets, scholars, and historians from the earliest of times believed what we believe today: that responsibility is a manifestation of an individual's high level of self-esteem.
Hysteria Beyond Freud
WEBthe attempt to use Egyptian evidence, which has already been widely questioned, [] Veith's claims for Greek medicine are seriously flawed. As only one recent writer on hysteria, E. Trillat, [] has recognized, the "various Hippocratic texts" applying the term "hysteria" to many different complaints simply do not exist; moreover, to suggest that Hippocratic …
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