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Medicial Mistakes?
How many people each year suffer some type of preventable harm that contributes to their death after a hospital visit?
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| | From Alternative Medicine a Definitive Guide to the Wellness Inventory - An Interview with Pioneering Entrepreneur Jim Strohecker | |
Integrator: In the last
couple years the site and your own work have focused significantly on a
wellness focus rather than alternative medicine or integrative medicine or any
combination of the above. What’s the fit? Do you think wellness is as imbedded
in CAM practices as the practitioners tend to say that it is?
Strohecker: There
is a strong and inherent fit. Long before I developed an interest in
alternative medicine, I was focused on how we create a higher level of personal
wellbeing. I was always exploring how we can maximize our potential as human
beings. At the same time, I was fascinated with natural approaches to
re-establishing balance and harmony in body, mind and spirit when our system is
out of balance and we are unwell. Our original intention in HealthWorld Online
was to incorporate both a strong focus on wellness and self-care in addition to
the best of alternative medicine. Our original model was to have two pathways
in HealthWorld, one pathway if you were looking for a natural solution to a
health concern, and another pathway if you were looking for enhanced health and
wellbeing.
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"I have always felt that the practice
of alternative medicine, CAM and
Integrative Medicine tend to focus too
strongly on diagnosis and treatment,
and not enough on self-care and
creating wellness."
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Our
recent 2010 re-launch of HealthWorld and re-branding of the website as
healthy.net is significant in a number of ways. As you indicated in your
question, we have placed much of our focus on bringing our Wellness Inventory
program (www.WellPeople.com) to the
corporate, healthcare, spa, university and coaching markets. The Wellness
Inventory is a holistic assessment and life-balance program designed to help
people to gain personal insight into their state of physical, emotional, and
spiritual wellness. The program then provides guidance and tools to transform
this new awareness into sustainable lifestyle change and a renewed sense of
health and wellbeing. We have also created a certification program to train wellness coaches to support individuals on their personal wellness journey.
 Developed by wellness pioneer John Travis MD, MPH
Today, we are coming full circle and infusing
healthy.net with a stronger wellness focus, fully embracing the wellness
dimension. The site is now cobranded on the page headers with both healthy.net
and Wellness Inventory. The navigation on the new site is much more focused
than before on wellness and healthy living – Healthy Kitchen, Emotional Health,
Healthy Relationships, Healthy Sleep, Mind/Body Health, Healthy Woman, Healthy
Aging, etc, however, the focus on alternative therapies and Integrative
Medicine and key health conditions is still present.
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