Towards a transactional medicine approach to combating global emerging pathogens

The case of Covid-19

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ID15540675
AuthorsAbdou Simon Senghor (0000-0001-9353-5482, University of Maryland, Baltimore, corresponding author), Mame Salah Mbaye (Université du Québec à Rimouski), Rougui Diop (Université de Montréal), Mbih Jerome Tosam (0000-0001-9686-0408, University of Bamenda), Patrick Kabou (Université Toulouse-I-Capitole), Abdoulaye Niang (0000-0003-3196-3064, Université Gaston Berger), Godwin Okoye (University of Maryland, Baltimore)
Year2023
Volume18
Issue1
Pages2272710-2272710
Publication date2023-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-1692 • E-ISSN: 1744-1706
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17441692.2023.2272710
PMID37917803
OpenAlexW4388213525
LanguageEN
References cited93

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck and China reported the first case to the World Health Organization in December 2019, there was no evidence-based treatment to combat it. With the catastrophic situation that followed, materialised by a considerable number of deaths, researchers, doctors, traditional healers, and governments of all nations committed themselves to find therapeutic solutions, including preventive and curative. There are effective treatments offered both by modern medicine and traditional medicine for COVID-19 today. However, other therapeutic proposals have not been approved due to the lack of effectiveness and scientific rigour during their development process. Proponents of modern medicine prefer biomedical therapies while in some countries, traditional treatments are used regularly because of their availability, affordability and satisfaction they bring to the population. In this paper, we propose a transactional medicine approach where the interaction between traditional and modern medicine produces a change. With this approach, the promoters of traditional medicine and those of modern medicine will be able to acquire knowledge through the experience produced by their encounters. Transactional medicine aims to be a model for decolonising medicine and recognising the value of both traditional and modern medicine in the fight against COVID-19 and other global emerging pathogens

Alternative medicine · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Disease · Environmental health · Global health · Health care · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Modern medicine · Pandemic · Political science · Population · Public health · Public relations · Rigour · Traditional medicine · Transactional leadership · Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies · Law · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Nursing

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