WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy: 2002-2005: Annex Two: Selected WHO publications and documents on traditional medicine: Rational use

WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy: 2002-2005
(2002; 70 pages) [French] [Spanish]

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements
	Acronyms, abbreviations and WHO Regions
	Key points: WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2002 - 2005
		What is traditional medicine?
		Widespread and growing use
		Why such broad use?
		Uncritical enthusiasm versus uninformed scepticism
		Challenges in developing TM/CAM potential
		The current role of WHO
		Framework for action
		Strategy implementation
	Chapter One: Global review
		1.1 What is traditional medicine? Towards a working definition
		1.2 Broad use and appeal
		1.3 Expenditure
		1.4 Accounting for use and increasing interest
		1.5 Responding to the popularity of TM/CAM
	Chapter Two: Challenges
		2.1 What needs to be done?
		2.2 National policies and legal framework
		2.3 Safety, efficacy, quality
		2.4 Access
		2.5 Rational use
	Chapter Three: The current role of WHO
		3.1 Developing TM/CAM and integrating it into national health care systems
		3.2 Ensuring appropriate, safe and effective use of traditional medicine
		3.3 Increasing access to TM/CAM information
	Chapter Four: International and national resources for traditional medicine
		4.1 UN Agencies
		4.2 International organizations
		4.3 Nongovernmental organizations
		4.4 Global professional associations
		4.5 International and national professional associations
		4.6 Specific initiatives
	Chapter Five: Strategy and plan of action 2002 - 2005
		5.1 Policy: Integrate TM/CAM with national health care systems, as appropriate, by developing and implementing national TM/CAM policies and programmes
		5.2 Safety, efficacy and quality: Promote the safety, efficacy and quality of TM/CAM by expanding the knowledge-base on TM/CAM, and by providing guidance on regulatory and quality assurance standards
		5.3 Access: Increase the availability and affordability of TM/CAM, as appropriate, with an emphasis on access for poor populations
		5.4 Rational use: Promote therapeutically sound use of appropriate TM/CAM by providers and consumers
	Annex One: List of WHO Collaborating Centres for Traditional Medicine
	Annex Two: Selected WHO publications and documents on traditional medicine
		National policy and monitoring
		Quality, safety and efficacy
		Rational use
		WHO Collaborating Centres for Traditional Medicine
	References
	Back Cover

Rational use

Acupuncture nomenclature

A Proposed Standard International Acupuncture Nomenclature: Report of a WHO Scientific Group. Geneva, World Health Organization, 1991.

Report of the Working Group on Auricular Acupuncture Nomenclature. Lyon, France, 28 - 30 November 1990. Geneva, World Health Organization, 1991 (document reference WHO/TM/91.2).

Standard Acupuncture Nomenclature, 2nd ed. Manila, WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 1993.

Conservation of medicinal plants

Conservation of Medicinal Plants. Proceedings of an International Consultation, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 21 - 27 March 1988. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Natural Resources and Human Health: Plants of Medicinal and Nutritional Value. Proceedings of the First WHO Symposium on Plants and Health for All: Scientific Advancement. Kobe, Japan, 26 - 28 August 1991. Amsterdam, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1992.

WHO/IUCN/WWF Guidelines on the Conservation of Medicinal Plants. Gland, Switzerland, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, 1993 (F/S).

Selection and use of therapies

WHO/DANIDA Intercountry Course on the Appropriate Methodology for the Selection and Use of Traditional Remedies in National Health Care Programmes. Report of an Intercountry Course Held in Kadoma, Zimbabwe, 26 June - 6 July 1989. Geneva, World Health Organization, 1991 (document reference WHO/TM/91.1).

WHO/DANIDA Training Course: the Selection and Use of Traditional Remedies in Primary Health Care. Report of an Inter-Regional Workshop Held in Bangkok, Thailand, 25 November - 4 December 1985. Geneva, World Health Organization, 1986 (document reference WHO/TM/86.1).

Training and good practice

Guidelines for Training Traditional Health Practitioners in Primary Health Care. Geneva, World Health Organization, 1995 (document reference WHO/SHS/DHS/TM/95.5).

Guidelines on Basic Training and Safety in Acupuncture. Geneva, World Health Organization, 1999 (document reference WHO/EDM/TM/99.1) (F).

Prospects for Involving Traditional Health Practitioners. Report of the Consultation on AIDS and Traditional Medicine, Francistown, Botswana, 23 - 27 July 1990. Geneva, World Health Organization, 1990 (document reference WHO/TM/GPA/90.1) (F).

Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports. Geneva, World Health Organization, in press.

Training Package for Practitioners of Traditional Medicine. Manila, WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 1999.