Empowerment is now seen as an integral component of holistic practice and service design in healthcare, particularly as it relates to the improvement of quality of life for people with epilepsy.
Spiritual and existential care is seen to be an integral component of holistic, compassionate and comprehensive palliative care.
Policy, research and practical guidelines for health care professionals now routinely suggest that spiritual needs are an essential component of holistic health care assessment [ 1- 3].
In light of the growing body of palliative care research, spiritual and existential care for the dying is seen to be an integral component of holistic, compassionate and comprehensive palliative care [ 4, 16– 16].
Given the expectation of continuing global population ageing [ 1], increasing oral and dental health needs of older people [ 2- 5], the challenge of 'maintaining maximum individual and population health' [ 1, 6], and the recognition that 'oral health is a critical component of holistic health' [ 1], the provision of dental care for older people is vitally important [ 7].
These observations, if affirmed by future, larger and more rigorous studies that include more robust measures of socioeconomic status and confounding by factors such as nutritional status and habits or other metabolic risk factors such as serum lipids or the metabolic syndrome, further underscore the importance of proactive dental health care as an integral component of holistic, overall health.
'We have a separate stand-alone [CAM] centre within the hospital … we are on the main thorough-fare and we get a lot of people dropping in' [H2] In the community health services, health service managers described the access to CAM as linked to broader social justice commentary on the importance of providing equity in healthcare, which was also seen as a critical component of holistic care.
Search must be only one component of a holistic research experience in which the searcher consults many tools which, used together, are greater than the sum of their parts.
In using organic residues to produce energy, and safely recycling the digested residues back into the farming system, a biogas digester could be a central component of many holistic systems.
As our blog post mentions, we found that standard web retargeting is still a crucial component of a holistic retargeting strategy – using only one type of retargeting is leaving money on the table.
