Archive for the 'Naturopathic medicine' Category
Although many of us believe that a naturopathic approach to health, feels um, natural, you could argue that we are a small minority. Despite this, I don’t think the currently mainstream approaches to health are sustainable, and much as business and governments are being forced, so to say, to go green, I think consumers will [...]
This morning, OPB radio ran a story entitled, Lack Of Health Insurance Leads Many To Bankruptcy. They pointed out that bankruptcies caused by health care debts have risen sharply due to the combination of increased health care costs contrasted by the decrease in those covered by insurance.
In one example, a diabetic who had been [...]
October is Health Literacy month, which according to this website is
a time when health literacy advocates around the world promote the importance of understandable health information.
The site includes listings of events, resources and a newsletter. I think the idea of helping regular folk obtain, process and comprehend health-related information is absolutely crucial to overcoming [...]
As I’ve delved into the world of corporate wellness, I’ve found that there a lot of words for it. So far, I’ve discovered:
corporate wellness!
worksite health promotion
occupational health
workplace wellness
employee wellness
employee health management
health and productivity management
And the list, no doubt, goes on.
Occupational health is probably the original place that the move towards corporate wellness started. As [...]
To conclude the series of ideas to apply a naturopathic approach to corporate wellness, I’ll tackle the sixth and final principle of naturopathy: prevention. The naturopathic physician recognizes the fact that the goal of healthcare is not only treatment of disease, but ultimately the prevention of disease. To meet this goal, the naturopath works with [...]
Hopefully, I’m showing a bit of a pattern here. In the first four posts of this series, I’ve emphasized a naturopathic approach to corporate wellness, through the six guiding principles of naturopathy. The one principle that has been present within my thought process so far but that hasn’t been called out explicitly is doctor as [...]
