Hastings Cent Rep. 1999 Jul-Aug; 29(4): 23-7.

Medicine and its alternatives. Health care priorities in the Caribbean.

Aarons DE.

Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies.

In the Caribbean as in many other areas costly biomedical resources and personnel are limited, and more and more people are turning to alternative medicine and folk practitioners for health care. To meet the goal of providing health care for all, research on nonbiomedical therapies is needed, along with legal recognition of folk practitioners to establish standards of practice.