Knowledge Framework aiming at Disease Prevention through Logical Translation of the Balneology to the Modern Medicine
Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: disease, thermal aqua therapy 210 J. NAKAYA et al. I INTORODUCTION The disease prevention and the health promotion is the essential targets worldwide from the view of the re-duction of the medical care costs as indicated in the NIH (National Institute of Health) Road Map's that shows the direction of NIH for the next decade from 2003. The hot spa therapy is a kind of the preventive medicine that can achieve the prevention through its systemic harmonization effect2). The field of the hot spa therapy implies the temperature induced gene expression, the complex interaction between genome, phenome, and environment. In this way, we can say that the hot spa therapy is a kind of the integrated environmental medicine and is a future target for the genomic research. On the other hand, the translational research is the interdisciplinary practical experimental research aiming to bridge genomic science, clinical medicine, and other pioneer medicine3). To proceed the translational research scientifically, we need to stand on the Evidence Based Medicine4). Here considering that the evidence is the sum-mation of the clinical cases and the good evidences should have the many clinical cases, the computerization of the knowledge and its migration is the inevitable consequence to support the translational research.
Authors: Jun Nakaya, Yoshinori Ohtuka, Yuko Agishi
Language: English
Subfield: Complementary and Manual Therapy
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2133032429