What Is the Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Public Health

Bibliographic Data

ID11039937
AuthorsVincent M B Silenzio (Vincent M. B. Silenzio is with the Center for Family Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY.), Vincent Silenzio (0000-0003-1408-7955, Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume92
Issue10
Pages1562-1564
Publication date2002-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.92.10.1562
PMID12356590
OpenAlexW2075530138
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited5

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.

Alternative medicine · Bioinformatics · Biomedicine · Globe · Health care · Indigenous · Pathology · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies · Law · Medicine · Nursing

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