What Is the Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Public Health?
Year: 2002
Type: editorial
Abstract: What is the role of complementary and alternative health care and medical practices in the health and well-being of the public? With this extraordinary collection of articles and essays, the Journal explores this question and helps to open a new period in the history of public health. Although long an integral part of the health systems of societies all around the globe, the relationship between public health and traditional or indigenous health practices has not often been a congenial or collegial one. Yet the question of the proper role of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the health of the public remains perhaps the most important one to be asked by readers of the Journal, both supporters and detractors of approaches that are beyond the pale of conventional biomedicine. It is a question with a complex set of answers.
Author: Vincent M. B. Silenzio
Institution: Columbia University
Language: English
Subfield: Complementary and alternative medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2075530138