RT Book, Section
A1 Jonas, Wayne B.
A1 Guerrera, Mary P.
A2 South-Paul, Jeannette E.
A2 Matheny, Samuel C.
A2 Lewis, Evelyn L.
SR Print(0)
ID 1106852341
T1 Complementary & Alternative Medicine
T2 CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Family Medicine, 4e
YR 2015
FD 2015
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071827454
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1106852341
RD 2024/04/24
AB According  to  the  World  Health  Organization,  between  65%  and  80%  of  the  world’s  health  care  services  are  classified  as  traditional  medicine.  These  practices  become  relabeled  as  complementary,  alternative,  or  unconventional  medicine  when  they  are  used  in  Western  countries.  In  April  1995,  a  panel  of  experts,  convened  at  the  National  Institutes  of  Health  (NIH),  defined  complementary  and  alternative  medicine  (CAM)  as  “a  broad  domain  of  healing  resources  that  encompasses  all  health  systems,  modalities,  practices  and  their  accompanying  theories  and  beliefs,  other  than  those  intrinsic  to  the  politically  dominant  health  system  of  a  particular  society  or  culture  in  a  given  historical  period.”  Similar  definitions  have  been  used  since  then  by  other  organizations.  Surveys  of  CAM  use  by  the  public  and  health  professionals  have  defined  it  as  those  practices  used  for  the  prevention  and  treatment  of  disease  that  are  not  an  integral  part  of  conventional  care,  and  are  neither  taught  widely  in  medical  schools  nor  generally  available  in  hospitals.  Table  50-1  lists  the  major  types  and  domains  of  complementary  and  alternative  medicine,  while  recognizing  that  there  can  be  some  overlap,  adapted  from  the  National  Center  for  Complementary  and  Alternative  Medicine  (NCCAM)  at  NIH.