The review of integrative medicine practice’s strengths and weaknesses worldwide
Integrative medicine practice or integrated medicine (IM) has been introduced as a new concept to emerge both conventional medicine (CM) and traditional/complementary medicine (T/CM).This integrated and accessible healthcare was useful in bridging the gaps between CM and T/CM.This study is conduct...
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Language: | English |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://repo.uum.edu.my/11010/1/CR159.pdf http://repo.uum.edu.my/11010/ http://www.kmice.uum.edu.my |
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Summary: | Integrative medicine practice or integrated
medicine (IM) has been introduced as a new
concept to emerge both conventional medicine (CM) and traditional/complementary medicine (T/CM).This integrated and accessible healthcare was useful in bridging the gaps between CM and T/CM.This study is conducted to gain understanding the concept of the integrated medicine practice in the perspective of strengths and weaknesses.To conduct in-depth understand on the current development of integrative Medicine practice, the study methods involve worldwide electronic
database system for searching its strengths
and weaknesses of the integrative medicine
practice.In general, integrative medicine is
demanded by a patient as a new concept of
medicine in new millennium.It is providing
all medicine basics that included CM and
T/CM therapies that focus more on health
and healing, more evidence base to T/CM
therapies, as well as bridging the communication gaps between CM and T/CM
physician.However, integrative medicine
still has its limitation, especially CM
physicians look at T/CM as a source of “cash
cow” to attract more clients or patients to
make more profit.Moreover, the malpractice
issues also accrue due to the unmatured
medical theory applies and the wrong
emerging of medical theory usage.For
instance, lack of evidential base in
integrative medicine therapy and the
difficulties to integrate multi medicine
practice into the integrative medicine concept
are the major challenges.Despite attempts to
reveal integrative medicine strengths and
weaknesses, its significant impacts upon
individual or nationality still remain
unknown.There are still many limitations to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the
integrative medicine model implemented. |
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