title: Towards an holistic understanding of health and illness.
abstract: Mike Weir locates the current turmoil in the health service in a fundamental shift in the philosophies and values of health care. The existing models of modern medicine are making way for a new holistic understanding of health and illness in which, he argues, health visitors should become the principal practitioners.
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Weir
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life