Holistic And Integrative Health--An Introduction

Course overview

The past several decades have brought tremendous growth in the numbers of healthcare facilities and providers offering complementary, alternative, and integrative healthcare training and services. Consumers in the United States use these therapies in greater numbers than ever before. Why is this occurring? How do integrative medicine and traditional medicine differ in their approach to care from conventional Western medicine? What is holistic care? What integrative healthcare practices do practitioners and patients use? <p> The outcome of this course is for the learner to describe the differences among complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), holism, and integrative health, and to review evidence-based research about integrative health, integrative medicine, and CAM.