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Why Integrative Health Now: Setting the Stage for Transformation

Why Integrative Health Now: Setting the Stage for Transformation. Presented by Lori Knutson, RN, BSN, HN-BC, Executive Director, George Institute. Our Current State of Health Affairs. 60 million with high blood pressure 40 million arthritis 10 million - asthma

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Why Integrative Health Now: Setting the Stage for Transformation

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  1. Why Integrative Health Now: Setting the Stage for Transformation Presented by Lori Knutson, RN, BSN, HN-BC, Executive Director, George Institute

  2. Our Current State of Health Affairs • 60 million with high blood pressure • 40 million arthritis • 10 million - asthma • 30 million - clinical depression • 23 million - migraine headaches • 60 million obese • 20.8 million - diabetes • Inflammatory conditions

  3. Health/Medicine • Health is dynamic. Medicine is part of Health not the Whole of Health • Medicine is focused on a reductionistic approach to symptom(s) , disease management, trauma, and acute care.

  4. Integrative Medicine and the Institute of Medicine

  5. The Clock is Ticking Concept of “7th Generation

  6. Health Reform Law

  7. Definition of Health Promotion Health Promotion is the art and science of helping people discover the synergies between their core passions and optimal health, enhancing their motivation to strive for optimal health, and supporting them in changing their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health. Optimal health is a dynamic balance of physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual health. Lifestyle change can be facilitated through a combination of learning experiences that enhance awareness, increase motivation, and build skills and, most important, through the creation of opportunities that open access to environments that make positive health practices the easiest choice. O’Donnell MP. Definition of health promotion 2.0: embracing passion, enhancing motivation, recognizing dynamic balance, and creating opportunities. Am J Health Promot. 2009 Sept-Oct;24(1):iv.

  8. American Journal of Health Promotion

  9. Health/Health Care Reform • Personal Responsibility • Citizenship • Ripple Effect /Whole Greater than the Sum of the Parts • Interconnectness

  10. The Gap • Self Care Knowledge • Self Care Skills • Self Confidence in Health /Healthcare Decisions

  11. The Gap: Self Care Knowledge • Mind/Body Connection and Self Regulation • Innate Capacity for Healing • Food and Function • Physical Activity and Function • Options to Care

  12. The Gap: Self Care Skills • Where does one gain self care skills Family? School? Community? • How people learn Generational differences Cultural differences • Motivation Activation

  13. Holistic Approach to Health for All Generations

  14. The Gap: Self Confidence/Personal Empowerment: Paradigm Shift • U.S. Health Care Culture – Patient is subservient • Entitlement • Insurance Disincentives

  15. It is Up to Us to Create the Future

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