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16 The Independent, Canadian Statesman Weekender, Bowmanville, Saturday, October 23,1993 A Wellness System The Challenge for Health Professionals by Dr. K. Hoch Beginning with the Lalonde report, report, the Federal Government has consistently articulated a' new perspective perspective on health whose objective is to move away from preoccupation with disease and move towards promoting promoting health and wellness. Taken seriously, the perspective would logically logically imply either a new kind of health delivery system (a wellness system) and/or a new kind of practitioner, practitioner, a wellness practitioner. The ideas involved are not new, but they seem to have been forgotten in our preoccupation with caring for sickness and disease rather than encouraging encouraging health. Preoccupation with disease and its prevention lends us to equate health with the absence of disease. disease. So, if we truly wish to promote health, the way we think needs to be challenged and we need to add new dimensions to that thinking...I want to link health policy to quality of : life...I want health policy to support individuals capacity to function and participate in their communities and their opportunities to exercise freedom freedom of choice. Hon. J. Epp (JCCA 1993) Two factors will have a major impact impact on health care. Patients are becoming becoming more assertive with regard to their health, with regard to exercising choices in health care and acceptable health care. Patients are now taking a proactive proactive role and seeking wellness and preventive care through alternative approaches. The second major changes likely to occur will be a lessening of professional professional dominance will be increasingly increasingly multi-disciplinary with a concomitant concomitant sharing of power. Health professionals will be forced to change the way they think about health and their education. A Wellness Delivery System the definition presented for the Wellness Conference in Toronto stated: "Wellness is more than a concept. It is a way of life, an integrated enjoyable enjoyable approach to living that emphasizes emphasizes the importance of achieving harmony in all parts of the' person; mind, body and spirit. It is a lifestyle that creates potential for personal well being. More than an absence of illness, it is a balance among all of the aspects of the person. What is required to effectively provide such a Health Care System in Canada is an openness to new ideas, a commitment by all health practitioners, practitioners, educational systems and government government to create a more integrated approach than is currently part of the present system. Collectively, the staff and associates associates of the Bowmanville Family Chiropractic Centre provide such a system as described here. We hope that you can join us to help educate others, family, friends, your medical practitioner, in order to transform thè current health care system to a Wellness Wellness System. Dr. Hoch, of the Bowmanville Family Chiropractic Centre, is now in her tenth year of private practice. She has personally attended more than 30,000 patients. She supports and educates her patients to create conditions for Optimum Health, with a focus on lifestyle modification and stress management so each individual individual can work towards achieving Optimum Optimum Health and in turn Educate others. others. ÜD "Ten Best Reasons To But/Local" (Not taken from David Letterman Show) 1. Location, more convenient for you for servicing. 2. Support local business (who in turn support local sports teams, charities, community projects, etc., etc.) . 3. 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