RT Book, Section
A1 Sawni, Anju
A1 Misra, Sanghamitra M.
A2 Kline, Mark W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182916272
T1 Complementary and Integrative Pediatrics
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259588594
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182916272
RD 2024/04/19
AB Integrative  medicine  (IM)  is  a  newly  emerging  field  of  comprehensive  healthcare  that  emphasizes  wellness  and  healing  of  the  whole  person  with  a  focus  on  mental  and  spiritual  health.  It  is  the  integration  into  mainstream  medicine  of  complementary  therapies  for  which  there  is  evidence  of  safety  and  effectiveness.  Integrative  physicians  strengthen  the  physician–patient  relationship  and  empower  the  patient.  The  Academic  Consortium  for  Integrative  Medicine  and  Health,  which  consists  of  56  academic  medical  centers,  defines  IM  as  “the  practice  of  medicine  that  reaffirms  the  importance  of  the  relationship  between  practitioner  and  patient,  focuses  on  the  whole  person,  is  informed  by  evidence,  and  makes  use  of  all  appropriate  therapeutic  approaches,  healthcare  professionals  and  disciplines  to  achieve  optimal  health  and  healing.”  This  concept  is  illustrated  in  Figure  13-1.