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CAM Therapies: other examples - CORRECT ANSWER-Prayer utilized for healing
Faith healing
Spirituality
Acupuncture
Acupressure
Alexander Technique
Reflexology
Orthomolecular nutrition
Aerobics
Yoga
Tai chi ch'uan
Hypnosis
Biofeedback
Deep breathing exercises
Clinical ecology
Psychic and occult groups
,CAM
Why Do People Seek Alternative Health Care? (Three major reasons) - CORRECT ANSWER-
1.Dissatisfaction with the expense associated with conventional treatment.
2.To feel a greater sense of control over their own treatment.
3.Compatibility between the philosophy of certain therapies and patients' own beliefs about
their personal health care.
CAM - Persuasive Appeal of CAM - CORRECT ANSWER-Nature linked with certain terminology
such as "natural."
Pure versus synthetics
Natural rather than artificial
Organic as opposed to processed.
In 2007, $34 billion dollars were spent to seek "natural" means to good health.
Health consumer Consumer Health - CORRECT ANSWER-It deals with the decisions individuals
make with regard to the purchase and use of the available health products and services that will
have a direct effect on their health (Corrnacchia et al., 2007).
It involves the economic, or monetary, aspects of health over which individuals have control.
Consumer health includes self-motivated or self-initiated actions
,May include the purchase of a bottle of aspirin tablets or a dentifrice or the selection of a
physician, dentist or nursing home.
It is not what health departments or others do to control disease through clinics or information.
However, a consumer's decision to use such services or information is consumer health
(Cornacchia et al., 2007).
Health consumer - What Does It Mean To Be A Health Consumer? - CORRECT ANSWER-Because
we are consumers of goods and services, including health services, we need to make wise and
intelligent decisions when spending our money to buy "good health."
Our nation's economy is built on this function, called a material economy, and the economy
relies on individuals to keep buying things to keep it healthy.
Health consumer - Healthy People 2020 Goals
on Consumer Health - CORRECT ANSWER-A major goal in Healthy People 2020 reads, "Improve
the health literacy of the population."
Three objectives related to that goal are:
-Increase the proportion of persons who report their health care provider always gave them
easy-to-understand instructions about what to do to take care of their illness or health
condition.
-Increase the proportion of persons who report their health care provider always asked them to
describe how they will follow the instructions.
-Increase the proportion of persons who report their health care providers' office always offered
help in filling out a form.
Caveat Emptor:
Let the Buyer Beware - CORRECT ANSWER-Places responsibility on the consumer.
, The exception to this is if the seller actively conceals latent defects or otherwise made material
misrepresentations amounting to fraud.
Acupuncture history - CORRECT ANSWER-Different beliefs of how it started. One story is
soldiers wounded in battles by arrows were cured of chronic afflictions
-History traced back to 1100 BC
Massage history - CORRECT ANSWER-Archaeological evidence of massage has been found in
many ancient civilizations including China, India, Japan, Korea, Egypt, Rome, Greece, and
Mesopotamia.
Holistic
what do they have in common?
Acupuncture
Massage
Reflexology
Naturopathic - CORRECT ANSWER-Holistic, prevention, increase your body's ability to fight
sickness
Von Leeuwenhoek - CORRECT ANSWER-Learned how to make magnifying glasses by curving
glasses to help see the thread count of threads in cloth to purchase
One day decided to look into a glass of water
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see and describe bacteria (1674)