Government insists on second public consultation before regulating complementary medicine

Background Document on Public Consultation

A public health agenda for traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine.

Traditional medicine (a term used here to denote the indigenous health traditions of the world) and complementary and alternative medicine (T/CAM) have, in the past 10 years, claimed an increasing share of the public's awareness and the agenda of medical researchers. Studies have documented that about half the population of many industrialized countries now use T/CAM, and the proportion is as h...

Determinants of public trust in complementary and alternative medicine

BACKGROUND In the Netherlands, public trust in conventional medicine is relatively high. There is reason to believe that public trust in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is rated lower. The aim of this study is to gain insight into public trust in CAM and the determinants that lie at the root of it. We hypothesized that public trust in CAM is related to (perceived) institutional gua...

A Consultation on Reducing Exposure to Second-hand Smoke Smoking in Public Places

This submission is on behalf of the Scottish Parliament’s Cross Party Group on Tobacco Control. This Cross Party Group has membership of more than 20 MSPs from all the main parties, and was established by SCCOT (the Scottish Cancer Coalition on Tobacco). Its purpose is to take forward an effective tobacco control agenda and monitor the implementation of the UK White Paper on tobacco, Smoking Ki...

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