Evaluation of Current Health Practices in New Zealand Report 2022

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Evaluation of Current Health
practices in New Zealand
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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Underpinning/Foundation philosophies of WSM............................................................................3
Underpinning/Foundation philosophies of CAM............................................................................4
Health practice procedures..............................................................................................................4
Health practice procedures for Western Scientific Medicines....................................................4
Health practice procedures for Complementary and Alternative medicine.................................5
Health practice procedures for Traditional medicine..................................................................6
Advantages and Disadvantages of the health procedures................................................................6
Advantages of Western Scientific Medicines in relation to Hauora............................................6
Disadvantages of Western Scientific Medicines in relation to Hauora.......................................7
Advantages of Complementary and Alternative medicine in relation to Hauora........................7
Disadvantages of Complementary and Alternative medicine in relation to Hauora...................8
Advantages of Traditional medicine in relation to Hauora.........................................................9
Disadvantages of Traditional medicine in relation to Hauora.....................................................9
Overall comparison of WSM, CAM and TM................................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
New Zealand’s health system is delivering highly disjointed, poorly synchronized
facilities to services users for the citizens. For the accomplishment of more combined, smooth
and continuous care policy changes are continuously introduced. Achievement of integrated care
needs is reinforced by a “coherent set of methods and models of the funding, administrative,
organizational, service delivery and clinical levels”. Therefore, more attention has been absorbed
on combined maintenance within main care services of New Zealand. This report highlights the
evaluation of current health practices in New Zealand along with the “Western Scientific
medicine (WSM), Complimentary Medicine or Alternative (CAM) and Traditional Medicine
(TM)” and advantages and disadvantages of the fitness procedures. The health practices that will
be explained in this paper are depression which is the examples of WSM, CAM and TM.
Underpinning/Foundation philosophies of WSM
Western medicine is used to designate the treatment of medicinal situations with
medicines, which are prescribed by the doctors, nurses and other healthcare specialist providers
who engages procedures advanced as per Western medical and scientific procedures. WSM is
also referred as Allopathic medicine or traditional medicine which generally differs from eastern
or alternative medications. The approach is to rely deeply upon scientifically produced medicines
and adherence towards formal scientific procedure.
WSM includes all categories of conventional medicinal treatment like surgery, radiation,
chemotherapy ad physical therapy. The WSM practitioners are basically, doctors, nurses,
respiratory, physical and occupational therapists. Therefore, any patient who goes to the hospital