Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine : policy and public health perspectives /

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This is the first book to address public health issues in traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM). It presents state-of-the-art reviews of TCAM research in a range of priority public health areas such as malaria and HIV and in such common ailments as skin conditions and orthopedic...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bodeker, Gerard, Burford, Gemma
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Imperial College Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Traditional medicine.
Alternative medicine.
Public health > Political aspects.
Therapeutics, Physiological.
Medical policy.
Public health.
Complementary Therapies
Medicine, Traditional
Health Policy
Public Health
Médecines parallèles.
Santé publique > Aspect politique.
Politique sanitaire.
Santé publique.
public health.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Policy. Introduction / Gerard Bodeker and Gemma Burford. ch. 1. Policy and public health perspectives on traditional, complementary and alternative medicine: an overview / Gerard Bodeker, Fredi Kronenberg and Gemma Burford. ch. 2. Financing traditional, complementary and alternative health care services and research / Gemma Burford, Gerard Bodeker and Chi-Keong Ong. ch. 3. Training / Gerard Bodeker [and others]. ch. 4. Safety: issues and policy / Gilbert Shia, Barry Noller and Gemma Burford. ch. 5. Pharmacovigilance of herbal medicines: a United Kingdom perspective / Joanne Barnes. ch. 6. Medicinal plant biodiversity and local healthcare: sustainable use and livelihood development / Gerard Bodeker and Gemma Burford. ch. 7. Home herbal gardens
  • a novel health security strategy based on local knowledge and resources / G. Hariramamurthi [and others]. ch. 8. Humanitarian responses to traditional medicine for refugee care / Cora Neumann and Gerard Bodeker. ch. 9. Public-private partnerships: a case study from East Africa / Patrick Mbindyo
  • Public health issues: priority diseases and health conditions. ch. 10. Malaria / Merlin L. Willcox and Gerard Bodeker. ch. 11. HIV/AIDS: traditional systems of health care in the management of a global epidemic / Gerard Bodeker [and others]. ch. 12. An overview of clinical studies on complementary and alternative medicine in HIV infection and AIDS / Jianping Liu. ch. 13. Skin and wound care: traditional, complementary and alternative medicine in public health dermatology / Gemma Burford, Gerard Bodeker and Terence J. Ryan. ch. 14. Traditional orthopaedic practices: beyond 'bonesetting' / Gemma Burford, Gerard Bodeker and Jonathan Cohen
  • Research. ch. 15. Clinical trial methodology / Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Urmila Thatte and Jianping Liu. ch. 16. Ethical issues in research / Merlin L. Willcox, Gerard Bodeker and Ranjit Roy Chaudhury. ch. 17. Intellectual property rights / Gerard Bodeker. Epilogue / Gerard Bodeker and Gemma Burford.

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