PUBH 425 Midterm Exam Questions And
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Alternative medicine - - -
correct answer ✅- Medicine that has been used to refer to those
practices explicitly used for the medicinal intervention, health
promotion, or disease prevention, which are not routinely taught at
U.S. medical schools nor routinely underwritten by third-party
payers within the existing U.S. health care system.
- Alternative medicine is everything not presently being promoted
in mainstream medicine.
- Alternative methods use relatively old technologies whose
fundamental character may reflect new scientific ideas on physical
and biological nature.
Complementary and Alternative medicine - - -
correct answer ✅- Alternative: a therapy used instead of
conventional therapy.
- Complementary: a therapy that is used in conjunction with
conventional therapy.
,PUBH 425 Midterm Exam Questions And
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- Complementary medical systems are characterized by a developed
body of intellectual work that (1) underlies the conceptualization of
health, healing and its precepts; (2) has been sustained over
generations by many practitioners among many communities; (3)
represents an orderly, rational, conscious system of empirical
knowledge and thought about health and medicine; (4) relates
more broadly to a way of life (or lifestyle) that is not all delimited by
the modern concept of what is referenced as "medicine"; and (5)
has been widely observed to have definable results as practiced.
- CAM medical systems are sometimes considered vitalistic and
holistic compared with allopathic medicine, which is considered
materialistic and reductionistic.
- Many contemporary CAM paradigms and practices derive from
complex and sophisticated ancient and historical health systems
and from indigenous cultures closely in touch with their natural and
social environments.
- The concept and term CAM remains a largely undifferentiated
amalgam of non biomedical practices, and much of CAM-as-
presently-spoken-of is not actually focused on medical care, but
, PUBH 425 Midterm Exam Questions And
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rather on sickness prevention and wellness care, e.g., prayer,
exercise, yoga, meditation, and the like.
Integrative medicine - - -
correct answer ✅- Medicine that combines treatments from
conventional medicine and complementary and alternative
medicine for which there is evidence of safety and effectiveness.
OR
- Implies an active conscious effort by the health professionals and
medicinal science to seek and sort out the evidence for and
application of various complementary modalities for appropriate
incorporation into the continuum of health care within the current
parameters of the health care system.
- Integration means improved standards of evidence, quality,
appropriateness, availability of care within the mainstream health
care system.
***CAM is now referred to as integrative medicine. The term was
made popular by Dr. Andrew Weil.
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Alternative medicine - - -
correct answer ✅- Medicine that has been used to refer to those
practices explicitly used for the medicinal intervention, health
promotion, or disease prevention, which are not routinely taught at
U.S. medical schools nor routinely underwritten by third-party
payers within the existing U.S. health care system.
- Alternative medicine is everything not presently being promoted
in mainstream medicine.
- Alternative methods use relatively old technologies whose
fundamental character may reflect new scientific ideas on physical
and biological nature.
Complementary and Alternative medicine - - -
correct answer ✅- Alternative: a therapy used instead of
conventional therapy.
- Complementary: a therapy that is used in conjunction with
conventional therapy.
,PUBH 425 Midterm Exam Questions And
Answers
- Complementary medical systems are characterized by a developed
body of intellectual work that (1) underlies the conceptualization of
health, healing and its precepts; (2) has been sustained over
generations by many practitioners among many communities; (3)
represents an orderly, rational, conscious system of empirical
knowledge and thought about health and medicine; (4) relates
more broadly to a way of life (or lifestyle) that is not all delimited by
the modern concept of what is referenced as "medicine"; and (5)
has been widely observed to have definable results as practiced.
- CAM medical systems are sometimes considered vitalistic and
holistic compared with allopathic medicine, which is considered
materialistic and reductionistic.
- Many contemporary CAM paradigms and practices derive from
complex and sophisticated ancient and historical health systems
and from indigenous cultures closely in touch with their natural and
social environments.
- The concept and term CAM remains a largely undifferentiated
amalgam of non biomedical practices, and much of CAM-as-
presently-spoken-of is not actually focused on medical care, but
, PUBH 425 Midterm Exam Questions And
Answers
rather on sickness prevention and wellness care, e.g., prayer,
exercise, yoga, meditation, and the like.
Integrative medicine - - -
correct answer ✅- Medicine that combines treatments from
conventional medicine and complementary and alternative
medicine for which there is evidence of safety and effectiveness.
OR
- Implies an active conscious effort by the health professionals and
medicinal science to seek and sort out the evidence for and
application of various complementary modalities for appropriate
incorporation into the continuum of health care within the current
parameters of the health care system.
- Integration means improved standards of evidence, quality,
appropriateness, availability of care within the mainstream health
care system.
***CAM is now referred to as integrative medicine. The term was
made popular by Dr. Andrew Weil.
