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International Journal of Global Social Work Volume 3 (2020), Article ID 3:IJGSW-114, 3 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/ijgsw/2020/114
Review Article
Brief Article: Complementary Medicine - Traditional Medicine

Sabine Bährer-Kohler

1Invited Professor for Mental Health/ Mental Health & Social Determinants at Tropical Neurology and Neuroinfection Master, InternationalUniversity of Catalonia (UIC), Barcelona, Spain
2Managing Director, Dr. Bährer-Kohler& Partners, Switzerland
3President, Association for Mental Health- Global Mental Health, Switzerland
4Chair, Houses of Health, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Sabine Bährer-Kohler, Mental Health & Social, Determinants at Tropical Neurology and Neuroinfection Master, International University of Catalonia (UIC), Barcelona, Spain, Tel: +41 (0) 61 5513059; E-mail: sabine.baehrer@datacomm.ch
17 November 2020; 23 November 2020; 25 November 2020
Bährer-Kohler S (2020) Brief Article: Complementary Medicine - Traditional medicine. Int J Global Soc Work 3: 114. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/ijgsw/2020/114

Abstract

To reduce the gap between complementary medicine (CM) and traditional medicine (TM) and to force the process to combine complementary medicine (CM) with traditional medicine (TM) is a still ongoing process. A more than 25 years old scientific journal related to complementary medicine research and the global report 2019 of the World Health Organization about traditional and complementary medicine are only examples, but both promote, force projects in the field, and respectively focus on benefits for clients and patients. Health promotion, disease prevention and healing are the overall aims of medicine. And the current statistical data for example in Switzerland show an increase of the use of complementary medicine applications. Traditional and complementary medicine can be important health resources with many forms of applications around the globe [3]. Debates over the efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) are requested, but some CAM modalities can have a solid track record of efficacy. The aim of modern medicine should be the "goodlife" of patients and humans around the globe.