scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Medicine: Developing from Asthma, Allergy, and Eczema

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 936-942 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Mohammed Morad ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
The Family ◽  
General Quality ◽  
Perspective Consciousness

This paper shows how consciousness-based holistic medicine can be used in the case of asthma, allergy, and eczema. We have many fine drugs to relieve patients from the worst of these symptoms, where many children and adults suffer health problems related to hyper-reactivity of the immune system. Many symptoms remain throughout life because the drugs do not cure the allergy and allergy today is the sixth leading cause of chronic illness. The etiology of the immune disturbances is mostly unknown from a biomedical perspective. Consciousness-based holistic medicine could therefore be used to treat these diseases if the patient is willing to confront hidden existential pain, is motivated to work hard, and is dedicated to improve quality of life, quality of working life, and personal relationships. Improving quality of life is not always an easy job for the patient, but it can be done with coaching from the physician. An increased physical health is often observed after only a few sessions with a physician skilled in using holistic medical tools and able to coach the patient successfully through a few weeks of dedicated homework. Children with allergy and asthma can also be helped if their parents are able to do work on personal development, to improve the general quality of life in the family and their relationship with the child.

scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Medicine: Applied Consciousness-Based Medicine

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 96-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Family Physician ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
The Family ◽  
Biomedical Treatment ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
The Village

Consciousness-based medicine is our term for a form of medical treatment that works by direct appeal to the consciousness of the patient, in contrast to modern biomedical treatment where drugs are used to affect body chemistry. With this concept, maybe we are (in a sense) turning back to the “old medicine”, where the family physician was the all-concerned “old country doctor” who knew the child, the siblings, the parents, the family, and the village. In a series of papers on clinical holistic medicine, we would like to present the classic art of healing, where the physician works mostly with his hands, then show how the modern biomedical physician performs with biochemistry, and finally introduce consciousness-based medicine. Some of our questions will be: If you improve your quality of life, will you also improve your health? Will learning more about yourself bring more purpose in your life? Will finding someone to live with in a loving and mutually respectful relationship improve your health? Scientists and thinkers like Antonovsky, Frankl, Maslow, and Jung have pointed to love as a unique way to coherence in life, and thus to biological order and a better health. Several scientific studies have also suggested that patients who focus on improving their quality of life usually will not follow the general statistics for survival, since somehow other factors are at play, which sometimes you will find referred to as “exceptional”.

La Qualite De Vie Des Personnes Handicapees: Vers Une Perspective Ecologique

1990 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-43
Author(s):  
Paul Boudreault ◽  
Jean-Marie Bouchard
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Community Interactions ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Ecological Principles ◽  
The Family ◽  
Personnes Handicapées

The integration of people with disabilities into the community challenges us to offer these citizens a quality of life comparable to that of the rest of society. Until now, quality of life in the community has been assessed using measures which compared it to life in institutional settings. Today we are beginning to recognize that the quality of life of handicapped persons should be evaluated using the standards applied to others living in the same neighbourhood. The assessment of quality of life varies over time and is influenced by the family circle, community interactions, and personal development. Thus, quality of life should be measured using criteria which respect human and social ecological principles. The issue of quality of life for handicapped persons is a collective responsibility, representing a major challenge in this decade.

scholarly journals Statistical evaluation of the quality of working life of employees in the russian federation

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera V. Zholudeva ◽  
Nadezhda F. Melnichenko
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
Federal Districts ◽  
The Russian Federation

Quality of life is one of the most important characteristics that reflects a comprehensive description of the level and living conditions. Nowadays quality of working life is an integral feature of “Quality of Life”. Quality of working life identifies working conditions and labor management. The quality of working life allows us to determine the working conditions, its organization from the perspective of the optimal realization of the abilities of employees.The article analyzes the domestic approaches to the definition and evaluation of the quality of working life. The conducted research allowed the authors to draw the following conclusions: the quality of working life is characterized by a multitude of indicators, and the required condition for studying the quality of working life is the development of techniques that allow the evaluation of the studied category.The goal is to evaluate the quality of working life in Russia.Methods. A number of indicators are presented to estimate the quality of working life of employees in the Russian Federation. According to the authors, those indicators are employment, labor safety, work safety, salary, and competence level and workforce productivity. The analysis that is based on data from Federal State Statistics Service has been done in view of gender factors and federal district differences. According to this analysis, the general part of workforce has jobs with harmful or dangerous working conditions. Extractive and process industries are considered the most hazardous.The article describes the method of integrated assessment of working life quality, based on the study of social and labor sphere of the Federal districts of Russia. Based on this author’s method, the integral indicators of the quality of working life of the population of the Russian Federation in the context of Federal districts are calculated and analyzed and the rating of each of them is determined.Results. The article notes that the quality of working life reflects not only the working conditions and its payment, but also the relations in the working collective, the motivation of the personnel to work. The most important motivational factors and characteristics of the socio-psychological climate of the enterprise are determined. The set of indicators, proposed by the authors and the methods of assessing the quality of the working life of the population can be useful to local governments for determining the rating of the quality of working life of officers in municipalities, and thus for making various managerial decisions.

scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Medicine: Holistic Adolescent Medicine

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 551-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Mohammed Morad ◽  
Joseph Press ◽  
Joav Merrick ◽  
Daniel T.L. Shek
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Muscle Tension ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Adolescent Medicine ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Holistic Treatment ◽  
Negative Beliefs

The holistic medical approach seems to be efficient and can also be used in adolescent medicine. Supporting the teenager to grow and develop is extremely important in order to prevent many of the problems they can carry into adulthood. The simple consciousness-based, holistic medicine — giving love, winning trust, giving holding, and getting permission to help the patient feel, understand, and let go of negative beliefs — is easy for the physician interested in this kind of practice and it requires little previous training for the physician to be able to care for his/her patient. A deeper insight into the principles of holistic treatment and a thorough understanding of our fellow human beings are making it work even better. Holistic medicine is not a miracle cure, but rather a means by which the empathic physician can support the patient in improving his/her future life in respect to quality of life, health, and functional capacity — through coaching the patient to work on him/herself in a hard and disciplined manner. When the patient is young, this work is so much easier. During our lifetime, we have several emotional traumas arranged in the subconscious mind with the smallest at the top, and it is normal for the person to work on a large number of traumatic events that have been processed to varying degrees. Some traumas have been acknowledged, some are still being explored by the person, and yet others are still preconscious, which can be seen for example in the form of muscle tension. Sometimes the young dysfunctional patient carries severe traumas of a violent or sexual nature, but the physician skilled in the holistic medical toolbox can help the patient on his/her way to an excellent quality of life, full self-expression, a love and sex life, and a realization of his/her talents — all that a young patient is typically dreaming about. Biomedicine is not necessary or even recommended when the physical or mental symptoms are caused by disturbances in the personal development that can be corrected with love and understanding. If possible, biomedicine must be avoided, even if this means suffering for the young person, who needs to confront the tough realities of life in order to grow into an able and sound adult.

Quality of working life: Improving working-life quality, quality of life and health in companies

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Niels Jørgen Andersen ◽  
Isack Kandel ◽  
Lars Enevoldsen ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Quality Of Working Life

scholarly journals Socio-Pedagogical Aspects of Diagnostics of Family Problems of a Specialist in the Security and Defense Sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (6 (344)) ◽  
pp. 118-129
Author(s):  
Iryna Trubavina ◽  
◽  
Svitlana Boyko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Family Problems ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
The Family ◽  
Statics And Dynamics ◽  
Hybrid War

The article is focused on the problems of diagnostics of the security and defense specialists by a specialist of social and socio-pedagogical work in family problems. It is determined that the problems of families of Ukraine security and defense specialists under the hybrid war and military conflict in the East of Ukraine conditions are both general and special in the context of creating social conditions addressing issues of concern to the family. They may be subject to the work of military and social specialists in their departments and social work in the community with families, if they are in difficult life circumstances. The social diagnosis criterion is the quality of life of the family, which is an objective and subjective criterion, implemented through a system of indicators at the level of a particular family and its member and the family at the level of society. These criteria include quality of life such as physical health, emotional health (eg, satisfaction, self-esteem, happiness), material well-being, work, creativity, relationships, security, direct involvement in a particular society, which we revealed through indicators for families of security and defense specialists. Socio-pedagogical methods of determining the family life quality for making a family social diagnosis are generalized. When using them, we have to keep in mind that the family should be studied in statics and dynamics. Prospects for further research are the development of methods for studying the family in psychology, law and social sciences.

scholarly journals Family Planning Village: From Gapura to Family Quality of Life

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-113
Author(s):  
Mohammad Tohirin Hasan ◽  
Iswandi Iswandi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Family Quality Of Life ◽  
Budget Support ◽  
The Family ◽  
Quality Of Family Life

Since its launch in 2016, the Family Planning Village (Kampung KB) has experienced interesting dynamics in the field. The number of KB Kampung is increasing every year. One of the goals of the KB Village is to improve the family quality of life. Quality of life consist of the physical, emotional, social, intellectual, spiritual, and environmental dimensions. This literature review research explores two questions: (1) how is the implementation of KB Kampung in the field; (2) What are the implications of Kampung KB for the quality of family life. By using Crossref and Google Scholar, 97 writings on the theme of Kampung KB were obtained. After the exclusion, there were 33 papers that were relevant to the purpose of this study, only 23 papers were obtained which were used as exploration material. The results of the analysis show several things. First, Kampung KB has been implemented with various obstacles and opportunities. Some that are often encountered are: lack of understanding of the managers, lack of budget support, and low continuity of activities. Second, although the community has felt the benefits, the programs and activities have not had too many implications for the family quality of life.

scholarly journals The Effect of Education with a Family-Centered and Client-Centered Approach on the Quality of Life in Patients with Stoma

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 225-230
Author(s):  
Fariba NasiriZiba ◽  
Shadie Kanani
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Family Care ◽  
T Test ◽  
Training Procedure ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Centered

Introduction:Colorectal cancer is known as the third leading cause of death from cancer in the world and the second cause of death in developing countries. Family care can positively affect the patient's general health system. The present study was conducted to determine and compare the effect of family-centered and client-centered training approaches on the life quality of individuals with digestive ostomy. Methods: This is a semi-experimental study conducted on 60 individuals. The individuals participating in the present study were chosen from either those with digestive ostomy or their attendants. The participants fulfilled the requirements (criteria) for entering the present study. For conducting the training procedure, both groups received family-centered or client-centered training. Two months later, the quality of life of the individuals with digestive ostomy was measured once more. The data were then analyzed in SPSS ver.21 by using chi-squared test, paired t-test, and independent t-test. Results: According to the findings of the present study, there is no significant difference between the family-centered and the client-centered groups in terms of demographic features. By investigating the mean changes of both groups, There was a significant difference between quality of life score and spiritual-psychological aspect of scores before and after the intervention in the family-centered group. Conclusion: The findings of the present study showed that family-centered education can increase the quality of life for people with gastrointestinal ostomy. This study concluded that family-centered education can be considered an effective intervention in people with gastrointestinal ostomy.

scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Medicine: When Biomedicine is Inadequate

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 333-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Mohammed Morad ◽  
Eytan Hyam ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Severe Disease ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Holistic Healing ◽  
Number Needed To Treat

The modern physician is using pharmaceuticals as his prime tool. Unfortunately, this tool is much less efficient than you might expect from the biochemical theory. The belief in drugs as the solution to the health problems of mankind, overlooking important existing knowledge on quality of life, personal development, and holistic healing seems to be one good reason why approximately every second citizen of our modern society is chronically ill. The biomedical paradigm and the drugs are certainly useful, because in many situations we could not do without the drugs (like antibiotics), but curing infections or diseases in young age is not without consequences, as the way we perceive health and medicine is influenced by such experiences. When we get a more severe disease in midlife, we also believe drugs will make us healthy again. But at this age, the drugs do not work efficiently anymore, because we have turned older and lost much of the biological coherence that made us heal easily when we were younger. Now we need to assume responsibility, take learning, and improve our quality of life. We need a more holistic medicine that can help us back to life by allowing us to access our hidden resources. The modern physician cannot rely solely on drugs, but must also have holistic tools in his medical toolbox. This is the only way we can improve the general health of our populations. Whenever NNT (Number Needed to Treat) is 2 or higher, the likelihood of the drug to cure the patient is less than 50%, which is not satisfying to any physician. In this case, he must ethically try something more in order to cure his patients, which is the crossroads where both traditional manual medicine and the tools of a scientific holistic medicine are helpful.

scholarly journals Dinamika “Occupations” Dalam Perspektif Ibu-Ibu Yang Merawat Anak Dengan Autisme Dan Dampaknya Terhadap Kualitas Hidup (Life Quality) Sehari-Hari

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Eko Sumaryanto ◽  
Gandes Mutiara Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Perceived Quality Of Life ◽  
The Family ◽  
Depth Interviews

Background : As the challenges arise in raising children with autism, mothers experience changes with their occupations and also on how they define them. This later alters the overall wellbeing both psychosocially and physically as changing on health status determines the life quality. Parents, particularly mothers with autistic children may encounter dynamic to their life quality as they discover adjustment on meanings of occupations while fostering their children. Research purposes of the study are to discover and to explore the mothers interpretations on their current occupations related to their role as main caregivers of their autistic children. Methods: This is a qualitative study with phenomology approach to discover and to explore the meaning of occupations and the dynamic of perceived-life quality as the meanings of occupations might shifting along the nurturing processes. This study had selected four people as research participants. The data were then collected through in-depth interviews and followed with thematic analysis. Results: Based on the analysis process, this study highlighted three main themes as follow, the general changes in life, the values of roles, and the perceived-life quality. Mothers who foster their autistic children had reported various changes in their daily occupations and how they perceived the meanings of these occupations as the diagnoses have altered the familial hierarchy within their domestic environments; this later also has significant impacts on their perceived-quality of life while fulfilling their role as the main house keepers. Thus, all these changes enforce the mothers to always strive on their best as this effort will eventually deliver positive meanings, such as self-confidence, greater responsibilities related to the roles as a mother and the possitive supports received from their support systems. Conclusion: The respondents reported the overwhelming perceived-satisfactions when talking about their quality of life. This is the result from personal beliefs over the ability to devote their life for the children and the family despite the perceptions that they are still unable to enjoy their general life ideally.

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