Total of resources: 27044

Report of the Second Meeting of Directors of WHO Collaborating Centres for Traditional Medicine

It reviews and discusses the priorities and chief areas of emphasis of the WHO Traditional Medicine Programme, considers the work of the Collaborating Centres over the past few years, examines ways in...
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Resource added in: 26/11/2001
Available languages: English
Medicine, Traditional, Anais de congresso

The promotion and development of traditional medicine: report of a WHO meeting

This report follows the discussion at the Meeting and includes sections on traditional medicine in health care, reasons for the promotion of traditional medicine, utilization of traditional medicine i...
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Resource added in: 26/11/2001
Available languages: English
Medicine, Traditional, Research, Health Personnel, Anais de congresso

Drug situation analysis for the West Bank and Gaza Strip

It provides demographic, socioeconomic and epidemiological background, followed by an overview of the health care system, and focuses on pharmaceutical issues, with a series of recommendations on impr...
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Resource added in: 26/11/2001
Available languages: English
Pharmaceutical Preparations, Middle East

O sexo nos idosos

Apresenta argumentos que a atividade sexual não desaparece totalmente com o aumento da idade. Mostra a prevalência da atividade sexual na velhice, lista algumas causas da diminuição da atividade s...
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Resource added in: 23/11/2001
Available languages: Portuguese
Sexuality, Aging/physiology, Aged, Coitus, sexuaisexuaisexuais

Quality control methods for medicinal plant materials

It presents units of measurement and their abbreviations, powder fineness and sieve size, and information on sampling, determination of foreign matter, visual examination and inpection by microscopy, ...
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Resource added in: 23/11/2001
Available languages: English
Plants, Medicinal, Quality Control

Report of the Inter-Regional Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights in the Context of Traditional Medicine

It presents the proceedings of the Workshop whose objective was to further promote development of traditional medicine taking into consideration intellectual property rights and their implications.
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Resource added in: 23/11/2001
Available languages: English
Medicine, Traditional, Intellectual Property, Patent, Anais de congresso

Regulatory situation of herbal medicines: a worldwide review

This document describes experiences from 52 countries in formulating policies on herbal medicines and introducing measures for their regulation and registration.
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Resource added in: 23/11/2001
Available languages: English, Spanish
Legislation, Drug, Pharmaceutical Preparations, Plants, Medicinal, Herbal Medicine

Traditional practitioners as primary health care workers: a study of effectiveness of four training projects in Ghana, Mexico and Bangladesh

This study evaluated the effectiveness of four projects where traditional practitioners were being trained to provide various primary health care services to communities. Document in pdf format; Acrob...
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Resource added in: 23/11/2001
Available languages: English
Medicine, Traditional, Health Personnel/education, Primary Health Care

WHO/DANIDA Intercountry Course on the Appropriate Methodology for the Selection and Use of Traditional Remedies in National Health Care Programme

It describes briefly the design and content of the course, provides a brief summary of the rationale for the development of WHO’s programme on traditional medicine, gives an account of the situation ...
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Resource added in: 23/11/2001
Available languages: English
Medicine, Traditional, Plants, Medicinal, Pharmaceutical Preparations, National Health Programs

The Role of Traditional Medicine in Primary Health Care in China

Report of a seminar on the utilization of traditional medicine in primary health care in the People's Republic of China. It discusses and examines the possibility of adopting comparable approaches in ...
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Resource added in: 23/11/2001
Available languages: English
Medicine, Chinese Traditional, Primary Health Care, Anais de congresso