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Toward Patient Care: Integrative and Complementary Approaches

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Over the past few years new medical approaches, Humanistic Medicine, Systems Medicine and Biopsychological model, have been promoting an integrative, holistic, personalized and patient-centered approach, highlighting the fact that biological and also psychological and social factors may contribute to the appearance, progression and management of diseases. In line with this view, recent scientific evidence has shown the relevance that complementary approaches have in taking care of patients. Given the growing need for comprehensive healthcare, that addresses mind, body, and spirit, the introduction of complementary practices empowers the need of a multidisciplinary approach to the topic on health and the prevention of chronic degenerative diseases, that goes beyond the medical competences and surrounds also social and cultural ones.

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  1. Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy

    Francesca Mastorci

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Mastorci, F. (2023). Toward Patient Care: Integrative and Complementary Approaches. In: Pingitore, A., Iacono, A.M. (eds) The Patient as a Person. New Paradigms in Healthcare. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23852-9_11

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