E-grāmata: Public Health And Health Services Research In Traditional, Complementary And Integrative Health Care: International Perspectives

The use and practice of traditional, complementary and/or integrative medicine (TCIM) raises significant questions, poses many challenges and holds much potential for the broad fields of public health and health services research. This book brings together leading international researchers with backgrounds and expertise across broad multi-disciplinary sub-fields including: health social science, biostatistics, qualitative methodology, clinical trials design, clinical pharmacology, implementation science, health geography and health economics. Contributors draw upon their research and experience to explain and review core research and practice issues on TCIM and its future development. This collection, including a foreword by the Immediate Past President of the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA), is edited and authored by a leading cast of researchers and academics providing representation from across a large number of public health associations including the American Public Health Association (APHA), Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA), Indonesian Public Health Association (IAKMI), Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA), China Preventive Medicine Association (CPMA), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Brazilian Collective Health Association (ABRASCO). Offering a rounded understanding of the current and future possibilities associated with the TCIM-public health and health services research interface, this book provides an essential overview of the broad evidence-base emerging in this area of research, policy and practice.