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Improving Chinese medicine (CM) knowledge base for Non-CM community health practitioners: A description of Shanghai-based community health education program
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Weijun Zhang, DrPH
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Center for East-West Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Wenjian Wang, MD, PhD
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Institute of Integrative Medicine, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Ka-kit Hui, MD
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Center for East-West Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Zhiping Zhao, MD
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Shanghai Office for Chinese Medicine Development, Shanghai, China
Yang JIa, MD
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Shanghai Office for Chinese Medicine Development, Shanghai, China
Yougen Zhang, MD
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Shanghai Association of Chinese Integrative Medicine, Shanghai, China
Min Zhang, MD
,
Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai, China
Since its launch in 2009, China’s healthcare reform has anchored in primary care and prevention mainly through development of community health. Chinese medicine (CM) is expected to play a substantial role in the treatment of common diseases as well as in public health services. Service networks in community health centers have been building up in the last four years. Realizing that the capacity to deliver services and the quality of services should be improving further, the Shanghai Bureau of Public Health decided to develop a key project to enhance the knowledge and skills of Chinese medicine for Non-CM practitioners in Shanghai community health program. The non-CM community health practitioners include three groups: (1) 8043 western medicine physicians; (2) 1826 public health workers; and (3) 1746 rural health workers. The goal is to better equip these community health practitioners with skills in addressing common diseases and general health management utilizing appropriate techniques based on the principles of integrative medicine. The program started its implementation phase in the February of 2014.
This study describes the program including the historical context, design, structure, content, and activities of the program, as well as selected program outcome measures and demographic characteristics. The study also identifies the challenges of the implementation and maintenance of this project.
Learning Areas:
Clinical medicine applied in public health
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Program planning
Learning Objectives:
Describe a model project for training western medicine physicians in community health with appropriate Chinese medicine knowledge
Keyword(s): Community Health Programs, Alternative and Complementary Health
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a co-PI of this community health education program. Among my scientific interests has been the conceptualization and strategy development for educational programs.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines,
and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed
in my presentation.
