Health Sciences 3025A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Epinephrine Autoinjector, Evidence-Based Medicine, Tennis Ball
17 Dec 2016
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HS 3025: Week One
The Human Body
• Moe tha a ahie
o Machine analogy has its uses
o Limitation of Newtonian Mechanics
Science
• Had s “oft siee
o Both are aimed at understanding and explaining observed phenomena
▪ Hard Science
• Chemistry, physics, biology
▪ Soft Science
• History, political science, social sciences
o The difference has to do with experimental design and the scientific method
▪ Hard science involves experiments with controlled variable
▪ Soft science is more vague
Fundamentals of Medical Science
• Objectivism
o Observer is separate from the observed
• Reductionism
o All complex phenomena are fully explainable by their simpler, component
phenomena
• Positivism
o All relevant information can be gathered from physical measured data
• Determinism
o All phenomena can be predicted from knowledge of scientific law
What is in a name?
• Everything no covered by the traditional Western allopathic model
• Textbook definition is problematic
o CAM is characterized by a developed body of intellectual work that
▪ Underlies the conceptualization of health
▪ Has been sustained by generations by many practitioners in many
communities
▪ Represents and orderly, rational, conscious system of empirical
knowledge
▪ Relates more broadly to a way of life
▪ Has been widely observed to have definable results as practiced
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Evidence Based Research Model
What is Health?
• Healthae is a state of oplete phsial, etal ad soial well-being and not merely
the asee of disease o ifiit – WHO
Discovery of IH/CAM
• European settlement of the New World
• Lak of aailale aepted ediie
• Redisoe
Role of the Individual
• AM vs CAM
o AM focuses on standardization
o CAM emphasizes the role of the individual/environment
• Reductionism/materialism vs holism/vitalism
o Materialism – matter is the fundamental substance in nature
o Holism – opposite of edutiois; gestalt = oe tha su of all pat’s
o Vitalism – phenomena of life are dependent on unobservable forces
Adaptation Model
• Individual adaptation
o Homeostatic
o Ontogenetic
• Population adaptation
o Cultural
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o Generic
▪ Environment
o Genetic
▪ Cultural/agricultural
Agendas and Interests
• Power
• Money
• Politics
• Egos
Week Two: Health Science 3025
• Medicine
o Dictionary definition
▪ The science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of
disease
o Textbook definition
▪ Any medical practice, local or expanded, admired or not, that delivers
medical or health care intended to protect or improve the health of
individuals or the society, or to affect and improve the expression of
symptoms or the outcome of illnesses
• This definition is important because science is the basis of medicine
The Nature Cure
• Health Care System Flaws
o Crisis
▪ Problem with sustainability
▪ ¾ Americans use CAM
• Mostly out of pocket
o All non CAM services are out of pocket as well usually
▪ CAM is offered usually as outpatient service
o Great deal of now largely forgotten historical evidence
What is Broken?
• Integration
o What is covered vs what is out of pockets
• Physical location
o Complex disorder requires aid from many different Health care professionals
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Document Summary
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