occupational health encounter as a healing encounter
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Occupational health encounter as a healing encounter
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Optimal health
WHO: “a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.
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Definition of health
Health = absence of disease + healthy behaviours + healthy interaction with
environment
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What is healing
Healing is the process of recovery, repair
and return to wholeness – salutogenesis.
• Retain health (prevention)
• Process of recovery, repair, reintegration and renewal from injury and illness
• Increase resilience, coherence and wholeness
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• Involves whole person- physical, mental, social, spiritual and environmental
• Unique personal and communal process and experience
• Healing may or may not result in cure.
• Focus is on SELF CARE
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HEALINGCURE
Self-care Health-care
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TThe illness-wellness continuumhe illness-wellness continuum
Illness-wellness
Cure Healing
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Components of healing
• Develop intention and awareness
• Experience of wholeness
• Relationship centered care
• Health promotion with self care and lifestyle skills
• Collaborative treatment
• Spiritual domain
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Intention and Awareness
• Intention- influence the motivation for change, understanding and compliance
• Being fully present with positive intention for another- perceived by other, enhance healing
• Truly connect with intention we first have to connect with ourselves
• Pt care start with ourselves• MINDFULNESS
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Wholeness
• Health result of dynamic balance of bio-psychosocial and spiritual influences
• Facilitate healing- develop insight into how these factors are expressed in each unique individual and ourselves
• Explore mind, body, emotions and spirit to best understand how to facilitate positive change
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Relationship-Centered care
• Relationship is bond that removes isolation and fear.
• Enhances insight, understanding and sense of control.
• Trust enhance social connection, fosters communication, empathy and compassion
• Helps to releases unhealthy emotions• Leads to optimism and positive expectations• Improve efficiency of care
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Healing organization
• Culture supports optimal health• WHO definition health: state of optimal
physical, social , spiritual and environmental well-being
• Well-being : state of being healthy, happy, productively contributing to one’s community and satisfied with one’s life
• Appropriate leadership, team work and technology to create
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Healing place
• Respect and communication between team• Feel safe to deal with conflict • Be empowered to contribute towards
improvement• Healing starts with modelling of self care
and core values by leaders• Flows into mission, vision, planning and
behaviour of health care teams
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Enhance health habits
• Empower individual how to best take care of him/her self
• Both provider and patient are active participants in healing process
• All healing is self-healing• Facilitate id to take care of themselves• Nutrition, physical activity, lifestyle choices,
management of stress
and anxiety
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Collaborative medicine
• Person centered – understand pt story- triggers, antecedents
• Integrative approach• Use most effective tools possible to facilitate
health- conventional or complementary• Begin with less invasive measures before costly• Team of providers to offer practices for healing• Combines best of technology- least harmful, most
effective approach is used
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Spiritual connection
• Journey toward, or experience or connection with source of ultimate meaning as defined by each individual
• Includes connection with self, with nature, with a higher power
• Facilitate awareness of these connections- enhance a sense of purpose for living, reduce suffering and optimize self-healing
• Most effective tools to help change unhealthy behaviour
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Healing spaces
• Physical structure
• Nature, colour, light, fresh air, music, fine arts, architecture
• Create space that influence health and well-being of those who enter the space
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Current model
• The terms allopathic or conventional medicine typically refer to “western”/ orthodox medicine as practised by the "scientifically" trained medical doctor in hospitals and clinics throughout the world.
• Mind and body medicine seperate• Evidence based – linear relationship between
single treatment and cure of disease
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Allopathic medicine
• Disease is caused by a specific aetiological agent e.g. bacteria, virus, injury, organ or system dysfunction
• The patient is a passive recipient of medical intervention
• The body is viewed in a mechanistic way - a machine rather than part of a person who exists in a complex social environment
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• Restoring health usually requires the use of medical technology and advanced scientific procedures
• Health of a society is largely dependent on medical knowledge and the availability of medical resources
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Integrative model
• Healing-oriented medicine• Systems approach• Whole person (body, mind and spirit), • Lifestyle and function• Behavioural change• Therapeutic relationship• Appropriate therapeutic approaches (biological/body
mind/ musculoskeletal/surgical)• Healthcare professionals (including alternative)• Various disciplines• Evidence-based approach.
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Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting
Occupational Health | Wellness | Executive Health | Consulting
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Optimal Healing Environment
A system and place comprised of people, behaviors, treatments and their
psychological and physical parameters.
Its purpose is to provide conditions that stimulate and support the inherent healing capacities of the participants,
their relationships and their surroundings.
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Occupational health
How do we change an occupational health encounter as a healing
encounter ?
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mbotha@eohhealth.co.za
Thank you
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