Traditional, Complementary And Alternative Medicine: Policy And Public Health Perspectives

Gerard Botfeke.-. Gemma Burford editors TRADITIONAL, COMPLEMENTARY AN ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Policy and Public Health Perspectives Imperial College Press m,, TRADITIONAL, COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Policy and Public Health Perspectives TRADITIONAL, COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Policy and Public Health Perspectives editors Gerard Bodeker Gemma Burford Oxford University, UK (Q^ Imperial College Press Published by Imperial College Press 57 Shelton Street Covent Garden London WC2H 9HE Distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224 USA office: 27 Warren Street, Suite 401-402, Hackensack, NJ 07601 UK office: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. TRADITIONAL, COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Policy and Public Health Perspectives Copyright © 2007 by Imperial College Press All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the Publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not required from the publisher. ISBN-13 978-1-86094-616-5 ISBN-10 1-86094-616-X Typeset by Stallion Press Email: [email protected] Printed in Singapore by Mainland Press CONTENTS Contributors IX xv Foreword POLICY Introduction Gerard Bodeker and Gemma Burford Chapter 1 Policy and Public Health Perspectives on Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: An Overview Gerard Bodeker, Fredi Kronenberg and Gemma Burford Chapter 2 Financing Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Health Care Services and Research Gemma Burford, Gerard Bodeker and Chi-Keong Ong 41 Chapter 3 Training Gerard Bodeker, Cora Neumann, Chi-Keong Ong and Gemma Burford 61 Chapter 4 Safety: Issues and Policy Gilbert Shia, Barry Noller and Gemma Burford 83 vi Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Contents Pharmacovigilance of Herbal Medicines: A United Kingdom Perspective Joanne Barnes Medicinal Plant Biodiversity and Local Healthcare: Sustainable Use and Livelihood Development Gerard Bodeker and Gemma Burford 101 145 Home Herbal Gardens — A Novel Health Security Strategy Based on Local Knowledge and Resources G. Hariramamurthi, P. Venkatasubramanian, P. M. Unnikrishnan and D. Shankar 167 Humanitarian Responses to Traditional Medicine for Refugee Care Cora Neumann and Gerard Bodeker 185 Public-Private Partnerships: A Case Study from East Africa Patrick Mbindyo 205 PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES: PRIORITY DISEASES AND HEALTH CONDITIONS Chapter 10 Malaria Merlin L. Willcox and Gerard Bodeker Chapter 11 HIV/AIDS: Traditional Systems of Health Care in the Management of a Global Epidemic Gerard Bodeker, Gemma Burford, Mark Dvorak-Little and George Carter 239 255 Contents Chapter 12 An Overview of Clinical Studies on Complementary and Alternative Medicine in HIV Infection and AIDS Jianping Liu vn 295