1 Health Systems Program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 2 Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana and University of Ghana School of Public Health, Legon, Ghana, 3 Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, 4 Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 5...

1 School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 3 Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, 4 Ghana Health Service/School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, 5 School of Public Health, Makerere Univers...

man depends heavily on various plant species for his survival. indian traditional system of medicine is based on empirical knowledge of the observations and the experience over millennia and more than 5000 plants are used by different ethnic communities in india. during the last few decades there has been an increasing interest in the study of medicinal plants and their traditional use in diffe...

BACKGROUND The performance of community health service centers (CHSCs) has not been well monitored and analysed since China's latest community health reforms in 2009. The aim of the current investigation was to evaluate the performing trends of the CHSCs and to analyze the main factors that could affect the performance in Pudong new district of Shanghai, China. METHODS A regional performance ...

Primary hypothyroidism is one of the most common endocrine disorders. TCM and Ayurveda are the two giant ancient systems of medicine flourished in China and Indian sub-continent respectively. The term like hypothyroidism is not mentioned in both classical literatures of TCM and Ayurveda but the features nearest to hypothyroidism are described in both. In TCM the disorders like Xulao (consumptiv...

Traditional and complementary medicine (T&CM) plays an integral role in providing health care worldwide. It is based on sound fundamental principles and centuries of practices. This study compared traditional Indian medicine (TIM) and traditional Korean medicine (TKM) basing on data obtained from peer reviewed articles, respective government institutional reports and World Health Organization r...

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