Dear Eddie

Healthy practices in fact is more important than chemical intervention.  These can include (but not limited to ) exercise, stress free life, functional /balanced food and purpose in life.  

If food is medicine, then healthy food, exercise and fresh clean air and water may be regarded as 'medicine' in that they contribute to health.  I am reminded 'Let thy food be thy medicine.'

Healthy practices are health, we should practice them at home, at job, whenever we can!

http://www.albany.edu/~drewa/health/practices.html

Good question.  Healthy practices is what health care professionals advocate their patients/clients do.  However, most do not develop 'healthy practices' as a service line to answer your question from a business perspective.  Patients might be told to lose weight, exercise more, stop smoking and so forth but usually it is up to the patient/client to find ways to make that happen.  The practitioner's offices don't typically have direct connections to weight loss clinics, smoking cessation programs and so forth.  At best they might have a brochure of what the hospital offers.

One doctor I had years ago had a hypnotherapist work out of the doc's office.  She'd provide hypnosis for weight loss, smoking and pain control.  That was close to providing healthy practices as a product line.  We're still oriented toward sick care and not prevention through healthy practices. 

Now we are in the era, where infectious agent and psycho- social factors plays a significant role in the causation of disease. Unhealthy practices of the people are caused by certain socio -cultural factors in the society .To avoid unhealthy practices and adopt healthy practices, we have to adopt the concept of primordial and primary prevention. Here inculcate healthy habits from early years of life and health education to the general population regarding unhealthy habits and change the behavior of the persons those are involved in unhealthy practices. To day scenario, health promotion should be a part of every health issue, so we have to follow principles of health promotion both for communicable and non- communicable diseases.In our health institution, we should not deal with patient, but a healthy population, so that they learn practice of healthy habits to remain healthy.

The correct power supply with vegetables, carbohydrates, low in fat and acúçares, without excess, and according to the functional profile of individuals is the path for a healthy life both in the situation as to the future. The fewer pills in General regardless of whether natural or synthetic, or other alternative therapies is best for the individual.

Healthy practices is more important than chemical drugs

To think in terms of „holistic and integrative medicine” means healthy practice. Healthy practice  means „first do not harm”. Healthy practice means to teach/advise patients to use their own non-specific mechanisms of defense to promote health and prevent illness (thalassotherapy, medicinal plants, heliotherapy, climatotherapy, dietotherapy) in order to live a healthy life. Healthy practice of medicine means to apply drug therapy when and how much (time and doses) is needed. Healthy practice doesn”t means to deny/negate the progress of health science and technologies but to use them with responsibility. In these terms, healthy practice is a process within medical thinking and action that leads to a good quality medical product. 

No doubt it can and should be considered. Why? Modern health criteria are primitive. Many diseases begin when an individual is considered to be healthy, regardless of applied technologies.

In such cases, the diagnosis is performed when clinical signs appear. Prevention becomes impossible ...

Dr. Victor

Healthy practices can be considered, medicine in the process due to prevention.

Healthy practices in five elements,natural fresh Air, healthy food and magnetic field of Earth, purity in Water,Balance energies of Fire element and the solar energy from open sky and sun with healthy mind,matter helps in the prevention of Diseaes.what is disease,it means it is discomfort with ease that's a disharmony in mind and matter.matter both physical and elements.this is for prevention and if disease occurs then Evidence based medicine practices will help to cure.thank you

Adopting healthy practices at home can improve children’s mental and physical health!  The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) is urging families in the Americas to adopt healthy practices and habits in the home to help boys and girls reach their optimal physical and psychological development.

http://www.sknvibes.com/news/newsdetails.cfm/81862

health practices are an integral part of non-product medicine as these practices build and sustain a good immune system and heal, not just treat symptoms of disease. It might be beneficial to treat these "non-products" as products...if medical professionals wrote "prescriptions" for healthy food, hours of sleep, physical activity (depending on what is being treated), fresh air, deep breathing or meditiation, there may be more compliance if this was emphasized as a vital component of treatment.

"Being healthy" is culturally specific, defined by our religious and cultural values. For some, it is our relationship with ourselves, God and Others (human beings, flora, fauna, environment). These balanced,  good relationship will be translated in our conduct, how we live, how we interprete meanings to events, understanding who we are, why we are here in this world for a purpose and this world is just a stopover, a preparation for the next world.

Healthy practice is a  style and way of life whereas medicine implies cure from illness through medical intervention. Healthy practice frees a person from the burden of medicine, I think.

I think it depends on how you define medicine. Adopting healthful practices is definitely a process.  Prochaska's Trans-theoretical Model of Behavior Change identifies five steps necessary for behavior change and long term sustainability of those changes.   Can adopting healthful practices be considered medicine?

Yes, adopting healthy lifestyle is preventive medicine. Models of Behaviour change will depend on our worldview. Success in achieving healthy behaviour or practices very much depend on change in attitude, beliefs, values which is deep rooted in culture, religious beliefs and practices.

I think all these answers and responses are relative correctly ,we need  specific definition to medicine and health more precise and accurate, may be the matter is words.

Dears,I advice to read ;Effectiveness and Efficiency ;Random Reflection on health services(Cochrane Al) and may be it is useful to read ;Guide to medical care administration(Donabedian A.A)

If You spend much of your day at the office, you should make the most of it! 8 healthy advices are given, fine article follows! "Developing a healthy lifestyle in the office is a habit that anyone can easily adapt to because of the flexibility that comes with it. Given the busy working schedule, it is very easy to lack the time to go for a proper workout. A more reason why embracing healthy living ought to start at the office."

http://www.goodfoodclinic.com/8-healthy-living-practices-at-the-office/

http://new.praguepost.com/142-culture/44212-8-healthy-living-practices-at-the-office

Dears.

If you want to know more  related this, it is better to read the critique or emancipatory paradigm in epidemiology, epidemiology is already an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary may be transdisciplinary efforts.Medicine ;application conceptions, ideas, methods,notions, on human body or animal body, but health is extensive concept than more medicine.,Where health  deal and include many different scientific fields.

Epidemiology is branch of medicine and corner stone in the health in the same time,So     epidemiology can incorporate medicine and health in order to formulate new scientific mind overcoming classical medical mind and narrow concept health  to deal with complex challenges as cancers, heart diseases,diabetes .I want to say  epidemiology is open system and can penetrates different scientific branches without canceling any,Now a new question raised; IS a physician alone responsible about health?

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The answer to the question: IS a physician alone responsible about health?  Clearly, the answer is "no."   Furthermore, the idea the physician is the captain of the ship is also terribly antiquated.  We must gently, but consistently, prod our patients to assume the helm of their lives and health, assuring them that we and many other health professionals will be there as navigators.

Dear

This covering,figurative is beautiful  yes, captain and ship Please , tell me now , How is the situation of ship?Do you see how    is the ship lurching between the biological waves. where is the captain? Captain does not accept any critic or guidelines,advice.

Note;This valid for all kinds of physicians; human physician, dentist, veterinarist

We Can  consider healthy practices as non-product medicine, as diseases started from leaving natural foods and getting away from sport also health problems started when we adopted bad habits in our life.

Briefly, Public health is the science and medicine for protecting the diseases and prolong the life and improvement the health by organized community efforts(Ashzon)

Related the story of intake food and vegetables ,sport  ,Their impact is not known because the measuring  dietary intake in large populations remains a challenge. in an attempt to reduce  the misclassification inherent in diet assessment, measurement error correction models have been developed but are seldom used.(Rosner B,willet WC) And may be problem with biological markers. another problem that it is difficult to detect associations between dietary patterns or particular foods and nutrients and health  or disease due to the lack of sufficient variation. Diet and the physical activity are arguably  the most difficult  exposures to assess in observational research and are plagued  by considerable measurement error.A large number of observational  studies have attempted to elucidate the role of diet in health and disease.Most of these studies  were  based on  a case-control study,Unfortunately, case control studies are generally problematic.(World Cancer Research Fund) and another study as long-term using randomizing presents a serious challenge. Were do we go from these?