COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Introduction

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a type of system, medical care and health services, and experiences and products that currently are not part of conventional medicine. Generally three types of CAM are: (1) West alternative medical treatment, (2) customary checkup systems, and paired methods. Researchers estimate that 68 percent of adults in the United States use at least one form of CAM in their lives. A research and policy design in response to the increasing use of CAM in a large scale is reviewed. The possibility of using CAM on public policy and the relationship between the CAM and public health is a new methodology. It also examines the challenges of CAM research, concerns about payment, licensing, education and legal and ethical issues and the need for an integrated approach to CAM. (Astin, 2009)

Discussion

Even though the terms complementary medicine and alternative medicine are used in exchange, they are felt unique. Alternative Medicine offers the methods used in place of traditional Western medicine, while complementary medicine means that in combination with traditional health care methods are used. As non-traditional growing areas of medicine, the term combination (CAM or CAM) designed to depict the acceptable region. NIH Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) know the CAM types of systems, medical care and health services, and experiences and products that is not currently part of conventional medicine. Including prevention and medical practices that do not generally taught in medical schools and underwritten by taxpayers III. Definitions indicate that CAM is a heterogeneous group of health systems and cultural practices around the world that share similar characteristics to distinguish between them and traditional medicine. (Freeman, 2007)

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