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Article: The Alternative Health Care Revolution.
- Article from:
- Nursing Economics
- Article date:
- November 1, 1998
- Author:
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The drama of mergers, acquisitions, downsizing, and the managed redirection of health care resources away from acute care hospitals and high-technology medicine has overshadowed another change in the contemporary health care culture (Duva, 1990; Edmonds & Hallman, 1995; Gabel, 1997; Salmon, 1995). The purpose of this article is to discuss the growing interest in alternative health care and offer an explanation for this phenomenon.
Definitions of Alternative Care
Alternative health care is not easily defined. Often it is explained by describing what it is not -- the scientific practice of nursing or medicine as it has come to be understood in first world ...