tailieunhanh - Legal Status of Traditional Medicine and Complementary/Alternative Medicine: A Worldwide Review

We already know we’re supposed to follow our pre- scription instructions. But life does get complicated. We tend to forget or skip the steps we know we should take. And starting a new habit can be difficult. But being a good medication manager is possible—for all of us. Use these six tips and take charge of your medications: Remember, take, monitor, avoid, notice, and store. | Legal Status of Traditional Medicine and Complementary Alternative Medicine A Worldwide Review World Health Organization 2001 This document is not a formal publication of the World Health Organization WHO and all rights are reserved by the Organization. The document may however be freely reviewed abstracted reproduced and translated in part or in whole but not for sale or for use in conjunction with commercial purposes. The views expressed in this documents by named authors are solely the responsibility of those authors. Acknowledgements The World Health Organization WHO acknowledges its indebtedness to our Member States regional offices and WHO Member State representative offices for actively providing data on the practice and legal status of traditional and complementary alternative medicine in their countries and regions. Thanks is also expressed to those international professional organizations such as the World Federation of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Societies World Federation of Chiropractic World Chiropractic Alliance and Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis who provided valuable information specific to their relevant therapies. We especially thank Mr Neil Cummings Canada Mr Josh Gagne USA Ms Sophie Lasseur France Ms Yong Li China Mr Stefano Maddalena Switzerland Ms Magali Ramillien France Ms Valerie Truong Canada and Mr Guoliang Zhang China for drafting and revising the document and Ms Kathleen Sheridan Netherlands and Ms Diane Whitney USA for editing the final draft. Appreciation is extended to the Norwegian Royal Ministry of Health and Social Affairs for providing the financial support to print this .