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Medicine and Its Alternatives: Health Care Priorities in the Caribbean
Author(s) -
AARONS DERRICK E.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3528063
Subject(s) - health care , alternative medicine , medline , folk medicine , nursing , medicine , public relations , family medicine , traditional medicine , political science , law , pathology
In the Caribbean as in many other areas costly biomedical resources and personnel are limited, and more and more people are turning to alternative medicine and folk practitioners for health care. To meet the goal of providing health care for all, research on nonbiomedical therapies is needed, along with legal recognition of folk practitioners to establish standards of practice.

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