2051.0 Special Topics in Alterniative and Complementary Health Practices

Sunday, November 8, 2009: 4:30 PM
Poster
This session will present posters that cover a broad range of topics related to complementary and health practices.
Session Objectives: Describe the complementary health practices presented. Discuss how alternative and/or compelementary health practices can benefit a specific population. Explain how complementary practices can be incorporated into medicine.
Organizer:
Paul Kadetz, LAc, MSN, MPH

Board 1
Plenty of fish in the sea, but are they safe enough to eat? The benefits of omega-3 supplementation
Soultana Haftoglou, MPH
Board 2
Evaluation of a standardized wellness protocol to improve weight, heart rate, blood pressure, strength, BMI, body fat, waist circumference, and lung capacity: A retrospective analysis of outcome
Matthew McCoy, DC, MPH
Board 3
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use among Immigrant Asian Indians and its Association with Health Behaviors, Supplement Use, and Access to Care
Ranjita Misra, PhD, CHES, Maryanna Klatt, PhD and Padmini Balagopal, PHD, CDE
Board 4
Determining sustainable global health policies: An impact evaluation of the integration of non-biomedicine and biomedicine into local health care systems in the Philippines
Paul Kadetz, PhD, MSN, MPH
Board 5
Correlation between Level of Urbanization and Medical Consumption and Cause-specific Mortality Rates in Taiwan
Yue-Hsiang Liao, Jaung-Geng Lin and Tsai-Chung Li
Board 6
Measuring “Complementary” Health Status: Immunity, Personal Constitution, and Their Relation to Health satisfaction
Fang Zhu Liu, Master of Arts and Chih-Yin Lew-Ting
Board 7
Developing a resource-based relative value scale system for traditional medicine services in the Korean national health insurance
Jin-Hyun Kim and Byungmook Lim
  
Board 8
Traditional and Complementary/ Alternative Medicine (TCAM) beliefs and use among children with cancer in Guatemala
Deborah Ndao, MPH, Elena Ladas, MS, RD, Silvia Rivas, MD, Frederico Antillon Klussmann, MD, PhD, MMM and Kara Kelly, MD
Board 9
Living with disability: Alternative strategy for an old mother to be led by her daughter with cerebral palsy
Toru Furui, PhD, PT, Masayo Furui and Ikuko Mori, MBA
        

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