Traditional medicine in China today: Implications for indigenous health systems in a modern world

Burke et al discuss the implications of health care reforms on individuals that practice traditional Chinese medicine as complementary and alternative medicine. The results provide insight into the survival and assimilation of indigenous health systems in a modern world. It may be wise for China, th...

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Published inAmerican journal of public health (1971) Vol. 93; no. 7; pp. 1082 - 1084
Main Authors BURKE, Adam, WONG, Yim-Yu, CLAYSON, Zoe
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, DC American Public Health Association 01.07.2003
American Journal of Public Health 2003
Subjects
Alternative medicine
Attitude to Health
Biological and medical sciences
China
Chinese medicine
Economic reform
Folk medicine
General aspects
Grounded theory
Health care policy
Health education
Health services
Health Services, Indigenous - trends
Health systems. Social services
Humans
Interviews
Medical sciences
Medicine, Chinese Traditional - trends
Public health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Qualitative research
Research and Practice
Social Values
Tropical medicine
Asia
China
Human
Health system
Modernization
Folk medicine
Autochtonous
Public health
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Summary:Burke et al discuss the implications of health care reforms on individuals that practice traditional Chinese medicine as complementary and alternative medicine. The results provide insight into the survival and assimilation of indigenous health systems in a modern world. It may be wise for China, the US, and other countries to examine ways to assist and promote their own indigenous health systems because the loss of such systems may remove a valuable source of care for individuals who may be culturally and linguistically isolated from conventional services.
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Peer Reviewed
Requests for reprints should be sent to Adam Burke, PhD, MPH, LAc, Department of Health Education, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132 (e-mail: aburke@sfsu.edu).
Contributors
A. Burke designed the study and conducted the surveys, analyzed the data, and wrote the brief. Y.-Y. Wong contributed to writing of the paper, providing expertise in Chinese economics. Z. Clayson assisted with data analysis and writing of the brief.
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.93.7.1082