Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A person trained in the methods and techniques of health education as applied to persons who have suffered a disease or disability to educate them on ways of preventing complications or relapse.  

All of the methods, techniques, and strategies used by the patient health educator to favorably influence the health knowledge, attitudes, and, especially, the behavior of patients recovering from a disease, injury, surgery, or other health episode.  

Patient health education. Health information and patient education Health information and instruction to help patients learn about specific or general medical topics, such as the need for preventive services, the adoption of healthy lifestyles, the correct use of medications, or the care of diseases or injuries at home.  

An attorney, mental health professional, or other person who participates in consent procedures with and for the psychiatric patient. A person who helps patients with their complaints and problems with medical care and hospital and health care services and with the protection of their rights. The field is called “patient advocacy,” one area of health…

The rights of physicians to admit patients to certain hospitals.  

In psychology, a general conception of mental disorders that holds that 1. one can generally distinguish between symptoms and underlying causes and 2. these causes may be regarded as a form of pathology.  

A medical specialty concerned with the study of the changes in tissues, organs, and cells as a result of disease or other phenomena. The study of diseases and the changes in structure and function which diseases cause in the body. Study of disease, its causes and effects, especially the observable effects of disease on body…

Retardation that results from specific pathologies such as disease, injury, metabolic errors, chromosomal abnormalities, and the like.  

Prejudice attitudes that are part of a person’s personality structure, authoritarian personality; endemic prejudice.  

Persons who are neither neurotic nor psychotic but who manage to maintain borderline adjustment that might be compared to an abortive stage in the development of a more severe mental disorder.