WHO reports on regional traditional medicine meeting

Publication date: the source describes exchange among public health, science and ancestral knowledge perspectives.

A WHO keynote and plenary panel in New Delhi addressed access to evidence-based traditional medicine on this date.

A regional health summit session examined how evidence-based traditional care might be made available within health systems.

A scheduled WHO meeting placed traditions of health care in an international policy discussion in India.

The session title explicitly tied expanded access to an evidence base, rather than an assumption that all traditional methods are effective.

Publication date: WHO reported a debate on suitable integration of traditional health approaches into primary care.

Publication date: regional officials considered the draft global traditional medicine strategy.

Publication date: the WHO account tied wider access to evidence, safety and health system design.

The report connected avoidable illness and early death to living and working conditions.

WHO described differences in access and risks within and between countries.