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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 92, Issue 10, Pages 1582-1591Publisher
AMER PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOC INC
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.92.10.1582
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- NCCIH NIH HHS [P50 AT000090, P50 AT 00090] Funding Source: Medline
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Traditional medicine (a term used here to denote the indigenous health traditions of the world) and complementaty and alternative medicine (T/CAM) have, in the past 10 years, claimed an increasing share of the public's awareness and the agenda of medical researchers. Studies have documented that about half the population of many industrialized countries now use T/CAM, and the proportion is as high as 80% in many developing countries. Most research has focused on clinical and experimental medicine (safety, efficacy, and mechanism of action) and regulatory issues, to the general neglect of public health dimensions. Public health research must consider social, cultural, political, and economic contexts to maximize the contribution of T/CAM to health care systems glob ally.
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