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Health Care Trends

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Cost Containment   Controls rising cost of health care & achieves max. benefit for every dollar spent  
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Geriatric Care   Care for the elderly  
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Home Health Care   Services provided at patient's home  
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OBRA   Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 Federal regulation for long-term and home health care  
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Telemedicine   Use of video, audio, & computers to provide medical/health care services  
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Wellness   State of optimum health Balance between physical, mental, & social health  
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Physical Wellness   Diet, exercise  
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Emotional Wellness   Understanding personal feelings  
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Social Wellness   Showing concern, affection, respect  
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Mental & Intellectual Wellness   Using common sense, being creative, curious, etc  
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Spiritual Wellness   Using values, ethics, morals to find meanings & purpose to life  
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Holistic Health Care   Treats the whole body, mind, & spirit Promotes body's natural healing power  
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Complementary Health Care   Conjunction with conventional therapies  
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Alternative Health Care   In place of biomedical therapies  
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Integrative Health Care   Uses mainstream & CAM therapies  
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Holistic Approach   Belief that an effect on one part of the body, affects the whole body  
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Ayurvedic   Re-establish balance in body through diet, exercise, body cleansing, & health of body, mind, & spirit  
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Chinese medicine   Energy flows along meridians  
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Chiropractic   Treatment & prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system  
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Hipnotist   psychological state marked by a level of awareness different to ordinary conscious state  
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Homopath   Based on idea that the body has ability to heal itself  
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Noninvasive   Not cutting into body  
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Pandemic   Disease outbreak over wide geographic area  
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Epidemic   Infectious disease affecting a large number of people within a community at the same time  
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