Instinct & Policy: Table of Contents

If we as policy writers of our daily habits and our business "Policies and Procedures" take more care to first understand our human nature, our individual and group tendencies and preferences, then we may end up with a plan that is doable in the real world  of a busy daily life; & one that doesn't annoy staff so much they retaliate in some slight or significant way, such as striking because the policy was impossible or illegal or unethical enough for the group to fight it.

We cannot all be wise in all topics so seeking the guidance of experts and asking what they recommend can save time, money, and possibly prevent tears. I have made mistakes and I have helped others change when their choices weren’t helping them to live as healthy a life as possible. "Effective Care" and "Best Practices" are the recommendations from the healthcare and business sectors for strategies that help most people most of the time, for that particular issue.  

The website is organized as two sections, an overview of what might be required for developing effective care policy and procedures that will be helpful and achievable for the employees, instead of being ignored or become a burden of oversight and punitive enforcement for the management staff.
 

The document is available in a tabbed text format. It has the advantage of having a scrollable index of the section titles - the "tabbed" format, however it doesn't have the images available on the website. Providing information in a variety of formats can help make it more easy for users to access as they are able or interested. 

This is the current draft of the document which is updated as I work on it:

• Instinct & Policy: Effective Care and Best Practices for Promoting Health and Preventing Harassment and Discrimination: (docs.google.com/Instinct & Policy)

Instinct & Policy: Effective Care & Best Practices for Promoting Health and Preventing Harassment & Discrimination.   

              “Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.” - Paul Engle, (p 1062, I.1)

The Introduction & Welcome includes an overview of the twelve chapters.

1. A general description of Effective Care and Best Practices in the areas of health care and business will be covered in Chapter 1. About Effective Care. 
2. Some resources that are currently available online and in the physical world are included in Chapter 2. Effective Care Resources. It is not intended to be a list of all resources available but rather a starting point. 
3. In Chapter 3. Patient Advocacy, the benefits of patient advocacy and care coordination for patients and physicians, and the payers and providers  are discussed. 
4. The value of effective self care choices every day for preventing disease and maintaining health is discussed in Chapter 4. Effective Self Care.  and 4.1: Self Care Strategies.
5. A guide to getting started reading medical research and evaluating it for accuracy is included in Chapter 5. Effective Research Resources. 
6. Chapter 6. Equal Opportunity Service begins a section that takes a closer look at how we may share instincts with our prehistoric hunter gatherers, and some of the instincts may be shared in common with other animal species. Our instincts may have helped us survive as individuals and as groups. 
7. How our survival instincts may lead to harassing or discriminating against others is discussed in Chapter 7. When to Report a Bully? How?. 
8. Early child development and attachment styles, and their potential effect on our likelihood to trust others or the products we purchase or to be fearful or angry about them instead, are discussed in Chapter 8. Trust is learned early. 
9. The benefits of a trusting business environment for employees and customers and for management are discussed in Chapter 9. Friendliness helps. The risks of an environment that supports harassment and discrimination are also discussed and ways to prevent violence from occurring. 
10. The discussion of ways to reduce the risk of violence from occurring is continued in Chapter 10. Food helps too.      
11. In Chapter 11. What is Gender Discrimination? we return to the world of our ancestors and explore the question of communication differences between genders and differences in pay and leadership. 
12. Ways to bypass any potential bias our instincts may be trying to encourage are discussed in Chapter 12. Equal Opportunity Policies & Procedures.

For convenience, a Glossary and Resources section combines terms and definitions and additional topics in one area, and Nature images are included as examples for stress relief. 

Extra Glossary topic pages include: G1. Art & Relaxation, G2. Poetry & Prose, G3. Relaxation & Stress, G4. Autoimmune Disease & Vitamin D, G5. Preeclampsia & TRP Channels, G6.Music & Movement, G7. Fear & our Inner Child, G8. Cookies & Bean  Soup, G9. Iodine & Thyroid, G10. Nrf2 Promoting Foods,G11. Alcohol, G12. Demyelination.  

The section  Is It Addiction or Starvation discusses the possible link between genetic difference in the cannabinoid system and various types of addictions.