Question

According to Dr. Patch Adams How does humor fit into heath care delivery?

Answer 1

According to Dr. Patch Adams the humor fit into heath care delivery in following ways .
It has been proved to have a positive impact on the immune system. It can lowers the pain and stress and even extend the life expectancy. When a patient is suffering from disease or illness, laughter can provides psychological relief in a difficult situations. Patch Adams decided to change this by infusing humor into the medical profession. Moreover psychophysiological research has partitioned the humor process into three parts
(1) the stimulus (humour)
(2) the emotional response( myth)
(3) the physical response or behavior
  
The laughter can be integrated into normal aerobic exercise to improve the effect of exercise .
The human body uses several muscles such as facial, respiratory, andlaryngeal muscles during the production of laughter.
As we know humor and laughter have the potential to positively affect several aspects of a person’s physiologogical behaviour such as
increased pain thresholds and can act as a buffer to the immunosuppressive effects of stress .It can also increase the amount of
natural killer cell activity .It also provide cardio-protective properties thus improving our vascular health and it helps to exercise the muscles in the face, lungs, and chest cavity.
There are some other major psychological aspects that are potentially affected by humor and laughter which include

*improvement of depression
*increases hippocampus activity leading to an increase in short-term memory  
*increase an individual’s
mood
*Influences empathic concern towards others
*decrease anxiety