Medical Wellness
"Medical Wellness" is the practice of health and medical care relating to proven wellness outcomes. The more specific definition of medical wellness is an approach to delivering health care that considers multiple influences on a person's health and consequently multiple modalities for treating and preventing disease as well as promoting optimal
well-being.
Medical wellness is an approach for delivering health care that considers the multiple influences on a person's health. Accordingly, there are multiple options
for accessing, treating, and preventing disease and promoting optimal health and wellness.
Further, medical wellness:
• Provides a balanced, appropriate application of wellness practices within the clinical setting that are based on evidence-based practices.
• Promotes a cross-disciplinary approach to patient care, based on informed consent and decision support between the practitioner and patient.
• Establishes a foundation for dialogue and collaboration between conventional and complementary practices with the primary goal of promoting optimal health
and well-being.
• Promotes the development and application of professional standards for wellness practices across clinical practices.
Defining Optimal Well-Being
According to the World Health Organization, health is defined as: “A state of optimal well-being, not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.” Optimal well-being requires the
balancing of lifestyle and health related dimensions of the whole person. These dimensions of health include physical, mental, emotional, environmental, spiritual,
and social components. The ever-developing field of medical wellness is serving
the need of helping individuals improve their health through the process of wellness practices and medical science.
We here at First Coast Community Wellness Services provide real solutions for today's changing healthcare environment.