Twenty percent of Americans live in rural areas. Rural Americans have an average age of 43 compared to 36 for urban residents and have higher rates of chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Rural areas have 30% fewer…
The Personal Health Inventory (PHI) is a resource that can help you understand the whole health of the person you are treating. It allows the individual to think about where they are in their health journey. A printable black-and-white version…
The Personal Health Inventory (PHI) is a resource that can help you understand the whole health of the person you are treating. It allows the individual to think about where they are in their health journey. This specific version is…
Evidence in a guideline from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO) supports using some integrative approaches to relieve anxiety and depression in adults with cancer. Anxiety and depression are common in people…
The SIO and the ASCO formed an expert panel to review the evidence about integrative treatments for cancer pain. The panel included experts in integrative oncology, medical oncology, radiation oncology, surgical oncology, palliative care, social sciences, mind-body medicine, nursing, and…
The Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is a community cancer center that delivers hands-on, personalized care and advanced medicine to the Lancaster community. The cancer institute supports the mind, body, and spirit of patients and their families.
During the Integrative Oncology Leadership Collaborative, the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center team focused on addressing health care disparities among cancer patients by planning group medical visits, beginning work to offer patient resources in Spanish, and working to make integrative medicine…
During the Integrative Oncology Leadership Collaborative, the Inova Schar Cancer Institute team began to shift the focus from disease-specific care to whole person care by piloting the Personal Health Inventory (PHI) in one clinic and using this as an opportunity to better understand patients’ integrative care needs from day one.
Therapeutic writing, a form of targeted journal writing, is a self-care technique encouraging deeper reflection, processing, and discovery, and simultaneously, reflective distance. It can help your patients to gain clarity and insight about their experiences and themselves—and thereby, to heal,…
The Integrative Health Learning Collaborative sought to improve the delivery of whole-person care and make integrative health routine and regular in primary care. During the learning collaborative, UC Health at the University of Cincinnati brought more integrative health into group visits, improved the curriculum and process and increased collaboration within UC Health.