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J A Laberke

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PubMed1979

[The efficacy of spa treatments (author's transl)].

Spa treatments have up to now been offered too often, with too little exactitude of indication and too extravagantly. For many diseases success is not to be expected from the beginning from spa treatment. Patients who have themselves endagered their earning capacity through a way of life injurious to health should only be sent for spa treatment if they have already proved at home that they are capable of changing permanently to a rational way of life. Four accurately definable spheres of activity are proposed for an efficient, independant spa treatment (connected spa treatments, other spa treatments for specifically selected patients only, practising health education and behavior therapy methods, development of spa holiday systems for annual leave).

Balneology↗
PubMed1977

[Health education and personal therapy in self-provoked diseases (author's transl)].

Diseases due to faulty behavior patterns injurious to health-- overeating, alcoholism and nicotine abuse -- are increasing ominously in our consumer society. Those with labile attitudes gather together in courses of treatment and in hospitals where they are usually treated symptomatically and perhaps also given more or less basic information on risk factors. A behavior-therapy effect is, however, only attainable in many cases through the additional longterm experience guidance in self-experienced groups. An appropriate motivation should be attempted by psychotherapeutic methods in the internist hospital treatment which so often comes first and by the occupational therapy institutions in the not frequent criminal offence. Prophylactically we need a medical pedagogic health education from infancy onwards.

Alcohol Drinking↗