Health Education

The GSCE syllabus specifically mentions lifestyle issues (diet, exercise, drugs).

The following articles cover some general issues about health and encouraging people to lead healthier lifestyles:

• A Mind to Change
• Global Health Priorities
• Health Education and Morality
• Helping to create healthier communities
• Sex Education

'Holistic care' is a term that is used alot in reference to alternative therapies (which are discussed below). However, all the term really means is 'whole person' care - that is, caring for a person's mental and spiritual well-being as well as their physical health. The Christian view of health, healing and medicine would therefore be in favour of a 'holistic' approach, as discussed in these articles:

• Bringing Faith and Medicine together under Christ
• God's health for all
• Miraculous Healing - a Biblical Start
• Prayer at the Bedside
• Does Prayer Work? (discussion of the 'Mantra Study', 2004)
• Whole Person Medicine

Nucleus series on healing looking through the eyes of Luke, the gospel writer and physician:

• Luke the Physician - a portrait
• Jesus' Healing Miracles
• Healing of a Paralysed Man
• Raising the Widow's Son

Alternative therapies have enjoyed an increase in popularity in recent years. However, many people have questions about whether these therapies really work, and if so how? The articles below look closely at some of the different alternatives and aim to assess the actual benefits of the individual methods:

• Alternative medicine - an overview
• Acupuncture - a Christian assessment
• Acupunture - a Christian medical perspective
• Aromatherapy
• Homeopathy - a Christian medical perspective
• Homeopathy - a therapy too far?
• Reflexology - please tread carefully!
• Reiki