Integrative Health aims to achieve the optimal state of health by taking into account evidence-based Conventional Medical Practice, evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Health, and Evidence-based Self-Care and Behavioural approaches that is patient-centred, science-based, and multidisciplinary. It takes into account the patient-practitioner interaction focusing on the person as a whole and their wider community and is informed by the latest scientific evidence, making use of all the appropriate preventative, therapeutic, and lifestyle approaches available.
The study of Integrative Health will enable the practitioner to more fully understand holistic health and the individual patient characteristics, needs, values, and beliefs that allow the practitioner to guide the patient to the best evidence-based practices to match the patient’s individual goals and outcomes for achieving optimal health and well-being.
