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health and social care
lifestyle medicine and health
concepts in lifestyle medicine
complementary and alternative medicine
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health care quality, access, and evaluation
health services research
health professionals and healthcare organizations
complementary and alternative medicine
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physiological processes
health and aging
nutritional issues
complementary and alternative medicine
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physiological processes
health and aging
nutritional issues
complementary and alternative medicine
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physiological processes
health and aging
nutritional issues
complementary and alternative medicine
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physiological processes
health and aging
nutritional issues
complementary and alternative medicine
Preferred term
complementary medicine
Definition
- The use of drugs and treatments not accepted by orthodox medicine as scientific, with the aim, not of replacing orthodox forms of treatment, but of supplementing them. The main users are the middle classes, the well educated and more commonly women, usually in response to chronic conditions (Cant, S. and Sharma, U. (1999) A New Medical Pluralism: Complementary Medicine, Doctors and the State. [Source: The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society; Complementary Medicine]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/complementary_medicine
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