A Public Health Research Agenda for Integrative Medicine |
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| Air date: | Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 3:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local |
| Category: | Special |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
| NLM Title: | A public health research agenda for integrative medicine [electronic resource] / Gerard Bodeker. |
| Author: | Bodeker, Gerard. National Institutes of Health (U.S.) |
| Publisher: | [Bethesda, Md. : National Institutes of Health, 2008] |
| Abstract: | (CIT): The increasing global use of traditional (i.e. indigenous), complementary and alternative medicine raises important public health questions. Integrative medicine (IM) research has focused primarily on clinical and experimental medicine (safety, efficacy and mechanism of action), and regulatory issues, to the general neglect of public health dimensions. A public health research agenda for IM would include a systems approach in considering social, cultural, political and economic contexts of IM use and outcomes, with particular consideration of the needs of high IM users, special groups such as refugees, indigenous peoples, the poor, women users and others, in order to maximize the potential contribution of IM to healthcare globally. A public health & policy framework for IM has been developed and will be presented. Gerard Bodeker EdD, M.Psych. Chair, Global Initiative for Traditional Systems (GIFTS) of Health, Oxford, UK.; Dept of Clinical Medicine, Division of Medical Sciences, University of Oxford, & Oxford Department of International Development, UK; Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, USA. Gerry Bodeker Ed.D, M.Psych, an Australian whose doctoral studies were at Harvard, holds faculty appointments in public health at Oxford and Columbia Universities. He chaired the Commonwealth Working Group on Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine and advises UN agencies in this field. He chairs the Global Initiative For Traditional Systems (GIFTS) of Health http://www.giftsofhealth.org, has authored a number of books and has published extensively on integrative medicine. He is editor in chief of the World Health Organisation Global Atlas on Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2005) and is a founding board member of The Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine. He is an editorial board member of the Oxford University Press journal E-CAM. Gerry Bodeker has contributed a chapter on complementary medicine and a chapter on the health of indigenous peoples to Elsevier's forthcoming Encyclopedia of Public Health. He also has contributed to Manson's Tropical Medicine, and the Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine. He chairs the Research Initiative on Traditional Antimalarial Methods (RITAM), and coordinates a refugee health project on traditional medicine at the Thai-Burma border. |
| Subjects: | Complementary Therapies Research |
| Publication Types: | Government Publications Lectures |
| NLM Classification: | WB 890 |
| NLM ID: | 101475723 |
| CIT File ID: | 14504 |
| CIT Live ID: | 6767 |
| Permanent link: | http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?14504 |