Melbourne Holistic Health Group Privacy Policy Statement - 2012
Published in Clinic Information on 31 December 2011 by Melbourne Holistic Health Group
Melbourne Holistic Health Group is committed to protecting the privacy of personal information we record; information that directly or indirectly identifies a person.We are bound by Federal and Victorian privacy laws, including the Federal Privacy Act 1988, the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000, and the Health Records Act 2001, as well as other laws, which impose specific obligations in…
Holistic Health Care
Published in Clinic Information on 02 January 2010 by Melbourne Holistic Health Group
‘Holistic’, when that adjective is properly applied to health care, refers to a qualitatively different approach, one that respects the interaction of mind, body and environment. Beyond the allopathic approach of treating the disease and the symptoms of disease, it seeks to correct the underlying disharmony causing the problem. ‘Holism’ derives from the Greek word for whole, holos. The word…
Towards Integration
Published in Clinic Information on 01 January 2010 by Melbourne Holistic Health Group
Complementary medicine (CM) in health care is becoming increasingly popular. A large number of health care funds now cover for the use of CM. A study in 2000 found that around 57 per cent of the Australian population used some form of complementary therapy, and that public spending on complementary medicines far exceeded total patient contribution for all pharmaceutical medicines…
Complementary Medicine / Natural Medicine
Published in Clinic Information on 31 December 2009 by Melbourne Holistic Health Group
Defining ‘what is complementary medicine’ has been a contentious issue. For a while, all medical care that did not fall within the dominant western biomedical model was ‘alternative’ medicine. The term ‘alternative’ became synonymous with ‘fringe’ and ‘unorthodox’ and was seen as a part of a counter culture that was inherently unscientific. The issue with ‘alternative medicine’ is that it…
A Collaborative Model of Health Care
Published in Clinic Information on 30 December 2009 by Melbourne Holistic Health Group
In a collaborative model of health care, orthodox and complementary health professions work together in providing the most effective patient care. It is unlikely that the individual needs of every patient and their medical condition can be met by only one practitioner. In a collaborative model of health care there is recognition of the scope and limitations of any one…
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