Improving health care through the evaluation and integration of complementary medicine

Author(s): ANDERSON, R.

Abstract: The need for health care reform in the USA is abundantly clear to consumers, providers, third parties and policy makers alike. This paper presents a rationale for the evaluation and integration of complementary approaches into the mainstream of modern medicine as a way of both decreasing costs and increasing the quality of care. A project aimed at building the necessary scientific basis for this is described. The ultimate goal of the project and this paper is to stimulate new thinking about health and illness, toward encouraging models of health care which attend as much to the person and their experience of illness' as to their symptoms and 'disease.

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