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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"alternative health care"”.
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Utilitarian and community values in mainstream and alternative health care on Martha's Vineyard
<p>Problems endemic to Martha’s Vineyard’s health care system and community efforts to resolve them led to the this community study on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Such problems included Martha’s Vineyard’s sole hospital and nursing home’s declarations of bankruptcy in 1996, the fluctuation of …
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Understanding the Patient Experience With Alternative Health Care: The Example of The Wholistic Health Center
… at and use of services in a (w)holistic health care setting. Although generally acknowledged to be increasing, there is little documentation of the patient experience and patient understanding in a whole person care setting. This research examines and describes the patient dimension …
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Alternative health care in the 1990's: the influence of legal constraints on the locational behavior of acupuncturists, chiropractors, and homeopaths
… policies constrain the locational preferences of alternative health care providers to varying degrees, depending on the particular profession and level of legal status. Three separate surveys were conducted, focusing on acupuncturists, chiropractors and homeopaths in Maryland, Virginia, North …
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An Incremental Approach to Development at Gesundheit! Institute
… evaluation and proposal for development for an alternative health care center in West Virginia. The Gesundheit Institute is based on the work of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams and his desire to create an alternative to the current model of health care. The Institute would not charge for services and …
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Use of Complementary Therapies by Individuals with or at Risk for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes: Results of the 2007 National Health Interview Survey
… burden of high morbidity, mortality, and rising health care costs on people of the United States. With mortality reports from the two diseases of over 600,000 per year and costs in excess of $176 billion, identifying alternatives to traditional models of care must be considered. Complementary and …
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Critical evaluation of the role of community based health insurance schemes in extending health care coverage to the informal sector in Ghana
… community is how to finance and provide health care for the large informal sector in low and middle income countries. This is as a result of the inability of the traditional tax systems in most of these countries to generate the needed revenue to help meet the health needs of the …