| “We stand at a potentially transformative moment when the nation’s attention to health issues has reached a high pitch, one that is likely to continue as the various working parts of the new law go live over the next several years. Through its recognition of the scale of the perils we face, its emphasis on the fundamental role of prevention and health promotion, and its willingness to pursue new answers through a wide array of studies and projects (for which it allots significant funds), the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act seeks to open doors that have previously been closed. It asks us all to imagine the possibilities.” |
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Health Reform, Prevention and Health Promotion:
Milestone Moment on a Long Journey
By Daniel Redwood, DC |
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| Integrative health practitioners (whose rights the new law expands with a hard-won provider nondiscrimination clause, Section 2706) can thrive in this milieu. Thinking holistically is at the core of our being. We embrace a worldview based on promoting balance of body and mind through natural methods of prevention and treatment. This is the common bond that unites our professions and undergirds their philosophical foundations. We know first-hand how it feels to pursue innovative solutions to vexing problems and to test them in the crucible of clinical practice and research, persistent in our quest to change not only health care but health consciousness.
We are now being called to take part in a great turning of the wheel. The task is daunting and the need is urgent. Let the new era begin.
Daniel Redwood, DC, is Associate Professor at Cleveland Chiropractic College–Kansas City and Editor-in-Chief of Health Insights Today and
The Daily HIT.
© 2010 The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
This editorial was published in the May 2010 issue of The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. It appears here with permission from the publisher, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
REFERENCES
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. H.R. 3590, 2010. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h3590enr.txt.pdf
- Klein E. Mark McClellan on the Affordable Care Act: ‘It’s an important step.’http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/03/mark_mcclellan_on_the_affordab.html.
- Final Report: White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. Washington, DC. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH Publication 03-5411, 2002. http://whccamp.hhs.gov.
- Quinn S, Traub M. National Policy Dialogue to Advance Integrated Healthcare: Finding Common Ground. Integrated Healthcare Consortium, 2002. http://www.ihpc.info/resources/NPDFR.pdf.
- Wellness Initiative for the Nation. Alexandria, VA. Samueli Institute, 2009. http://www.samueliinstitute.org/news/news-home/WIN-Home/WIN-Download.html.
- Redwood D. The health reform moment: peril and possibility in the Obama era. J Altern Complement Med. 2009;15(1):1-3.
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