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Holistic health is not itself a method of treatment, but is an approach to how treatment
should be applied. Holistic concepts of health and fitness view achieving and maintaining good health as requiring more than just taking care of the
various singular components that make up the physical body, additionally incorporating aspects such as emotional and spiritual well-being. The goal is a wellness that encompasses the entire person, rather than just
the lack of physical pain or disease.[clarify]
Holism as a health concept has long existed outside of academic circles, but only relatively recently
has the modern medical establishment begun
to integrate it into the mainstream health care system.
In the United States, the first National Conference on Holistic Health
was conducted by the Health
Optimizing Institute and The Mandala Society with the University of California, San Diego
School of Medicine in June 1975. This continued there for ten years with about three thousand
health professionals
participating each year. After the second year it was not under the Medical
School.
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