The use and practice of traditional, complementary and/or integrative medicine (TCIM) raises significant questions, poses many challenges and holds much potential for the broad fields of public health and health services research.

This book brings together leading international researchers with backgrounds and expertise across broad multi-disciplinary sub-fields including health social science, biostatistics, clinical pharmacology, implementation science, health geography and health economics. Contributors draw upon their research and experience to explain and review core research and practice issues on TCIM and its future development.

The book offers a rounded understanding of the current and future possibilities associated with the TCIM-public health and health services research interface and provides an essential overview of the broad evidence-base emerging in this area of research, policy and practice. Individual chapters employ specific case studies, featuring particular medicines/therapies, and focusing upon a number of health care settings and environments including general practice, community pharmacy, hospital specialisms as well as community-based private practice and self-care.

Contents: ForewordAbout the EditorAbout the ContributorsIntroductionDisciplinary Contributions and Methodological Advances:The Geographies of Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (Peter N DeMaio and Gavin J Andrews)The Social Science of Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (Alex Broom, Rhiannon Parker and Jon Adams)Health Economic Evaluation of Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (Islândia Maria Carvalho de Sousa, Adriana Falangola Benjamin Bezerra and Camilla Maria Ferreira de Aquino)Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine: Policy, Legal and Regulatory Perspectives (Jon Wardle, Daniel Gallego-Perez, Vincent Chung and Jon Adams)Coordination, Collaboration and Capacity Building Through National Practice-Based Research Networks: A New Paradigm of Research in Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (Jon Adams, Amie Steel, Janet Schloss and Wenbo Peng)A Holistic Approach to Implementation Science (IS): Broadening the IS Gaze to Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (Jon Adams, Amie Steel and Rebecca Reid)Capacity Building in TCIM: A Focus Upon Public Health and Health Services Research (Jon Adams, Amie Steel, Wenbo Peng, David Sibbritt, Jon Wardle, and Program Fellows)Substantive Topics and Key Issues:Traditional Medicine and Traditional Birth Attendant Use During Pregnancy and Birthing in Low to Middle-Income Countries (Bradley Leech, Jon Adams and Amie Steel)Traditional Medicine in Cancer Care (Janet Schloss and Amie Steel)Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine as Self-Care in Chronic Illness: A Focus Upon Stroke and Older Adults (Jon Adams, Wenbo Peng, Jason Prior, Roger Dunston, Erica McIntyre, Irena Connon, David Sibbritt, Alex Broom, Patricia Davidson and Bradley Leech)Low Back Pain and Manual Therapies: Examining Care via Non-Conventional Approaches (Eric Roseen, Jon Adams and Bradley Leech)Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine in the Brazilian Public Health Service: Opportunities and Limitations (Islândia Maria Carvalho de Sousa, Adriana Falangola Benjamin Bezerra, Maria Beatriz Guimarães, Iracema de Almeida Benevides and Charles Dalcanale Tesser)Traditional Medicine and Relational Ecological Public Health: Challenges and Opportunities (Erica McIntyre, Jason Prior and Jon Adams)The Need for Research on the Use of Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Ebola as a Case Study (Peter Bai James, Jon Wardle, Amie Steel and Jon Adams)Health Disparities and Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine Use: Reflections and Recommendations from a Social Justice Perspective (Elizabeth Sommers and Jon Adams)Index
Readership: Students, practitioners and academics looking to initiate or expand their own research program in TCIM and public health/health services research and scholarship.Public Health;Health Services;Traditional Medicine;Complementary Medicine;Integrative Healthcare;Practitioners00