HLSC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Ct Scan, Pain Management, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
17 Sep 2016
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In a healthcare setting, what are some of the choices we need to make: location, treatment type. What elements are most important to us when we need to make a healthcare decision: credibility, adoption of new therapies, affordability, waiting time, proximity, access availability, room for change, attitude, not dismissing us. Under what circumstances might we need to assist others to make healthcare choices: children, seniors, cognitive and behavioural difficulties, stubbornness, How do we find the services we require: internet, community, word-of-mouth, referral. Ontario ministry of health and long term care(source) Center for disease control and prevention (us cdc) Disease-dedicated sites: e. g canadian diabetes association; heart and stroke foundation. National institute of health (usa): evaluating internet health information: a tutorial from the. Conventional medicine: the medicine taught in our medical schools, science based application of physiology, biochemistry and anatomy to normal functioning and abnormal functioning. Study of pathology in people (how to recognize it) and how to treat.
