HTHRHSC 4570 EXAM 1 | QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS | 2025/2026 UPDATE | ALREADY
PASSED!!
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Definition
Time: 1970s-early 1990s
Tone: Introspective
Focus: Curious about IHM use and quality of patient-provider
relationships
Cultural Impact: health care crisis; shortcomings of conventional
medicine
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Phase 2: Reassessment Phase 4: Expansion
Phase 1: Exploration Phase 3: Implementation
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Term
role/purpose of NCCIH
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To advocate for To develop new pharmaceutical
conventional healthcare drugs
policies
To fund and conduct research
about complementary To promote traditional medical
health approaches practices
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Term
Why did NCCAM become NCCIH?
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1. NIH commitment to study promising health approaches that
Americans already use
2. Americans don't consider them "alternative," more than half of
Americans use dietary supplements & spend $4 Billion a year on spinal
manipulation
therapy
3. IH (combining complementary and conventional) has grown within
health care settings nationwide (hospitals, hospices, and military health
facilities)
Time: 1960s-1970s
Tone: 1. Mocking carried underlying theme of danger and need to protect the
public 2. Warnings to public
Focus: disapproval of therapies
Cultural impact: Political action where by AMA persuaded congress to order US
dept of health, education and welfare to investigate chiropractic, Wilk vs
AMA (1976)
Pre-specified eligibility criteria
Systematic search strategy
Assessment of the validity of findings
Interpretation and presentation of results
Reference list
, Time: mid 1990s-present
Tone: largely objective, without caustic tone
Focus: publication reported results that almost uniformly disparaged CAM
treatments; growing awareness of use
Cultural Impact: Greater need for training on IHM, creation of NCCAM,
supplements and FDA, legitimacy
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Term
What is the difference between western medicine & eastern
medicine?
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Western medicine = allopathic (conventional)
Eastern medicine = Chinese, Ayurvedic, shamanic, etc.
Alternative, complementary, integrative = combination (but with BEST
evidence)
Acupuncture and oriental medicine
Chiropractic
Massage therapy
Direct-entry (certified professional) midwives
Naturopathic medicine
(bottom layer) Background Info/Expert Opinion -> Case-Controlled Studies, Case
Series/Case Reports -> Cohort Studies -> Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) -
> Meta-Analysis & Systematic Review (top layer)
ANSWERS | 2025/2026 UPDATE | ALREADY
PASSED!!
1 of 46
Definition
Time: 1970s-early 1990s
Tone: Introspective
Focus: Curious about IHM use and quality of patient-provider
relationships
Cultural Impact: health care crisis; shortcomings of conventional
medicine
,Give this one a try later!
Phase 2: Reassessment Phase 4: Expansion
Phase 1: Exploration Phase 3: Implementation
Don't know?
2 of 46
Term
role/purpose of NCCIH
Give this one a try later!
To advocate for To develop new pharmaceutical
conventional healthcare drugs
policies
To fund and conduct research
about complementary To promote traditional medical
health approaches practices
Don't know?
, 3 of 46
Term
Why did NCCAM become NCCIH?
Give this one a try later!
1. NIH commitment to study promising health approaches that
Americans already use
2. Americans don't consider them "alternative," more than half of
Americans use dietary supplements & spend $4 Billion a year on spinal
manipulation
therapy
3. IH (combining complementary and conventional) has grown within
health care settings nationwide (hospitals, hospices, and military health
facilities)
Time: 1960s-1970s
Tone: 1. Mocking carried underlying theme of danger and need to protect the
public 2. Warnings to public
Focus: disapproval of therapies
Cultural impact: Political action where by AMA persuaded congress to order US
dept of health, education and welfare to investigate chiropractic, Wilk vs
AMA (1976)
Pre-specified eligibility criteria
Systematic search strategy
Assessment of the validity of findings
Interpretation and presentation of results
Reference list
, Time: mid 1990s-present
Tone: largely objective, without caustic tone
Focus: publication reported results that almost uniformly disparaged CAM
treatments; growing awareness of use
Cultural Impact: Greater need for training on IHM, creation of NCCAM,
supplements and FDA, legitimacy
Don't know?
4 of 46
Term
What is the difference between western medicine & eastern
medicine?
Give this one a try later!
Western medicine = allopathic (conventional)
Eastern medicine = Chinese, Ayurvedic, shamanic, etc.
Alternative, complementary, integrative = combination (but with BEST
evidence)
Acupuncture and oriental medicine
Chiropractic
Massage therapy
Direct-entry (certified professional) midwives
Naturopathic medicine
(bottom layer) Background Info/Expert Opinion -> Case-Controlled Studies, Case
Series/Case Reports -> Cohort Studies -> Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) -
> Meta-Analysis & Systematic Review (top layer)
