Public health and health services research in traditional, complementary and integrative health care : international perspectives / chief editor, Jon Adams ; co-editors, Alex Broom [and 8 others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1. Disciplinary contributions and methodological advances : -- 1. The geographies of traditional, complementary and integrative medicine / Peter N. DeMaio, Gavin J. Andrews -- 2. The social science of traditional, complementary and integrative medicine / Alex Broom, Rhiannon Parker, Jon Adams -- 3. Health economic evaluation of traditional, complementary and integrative medicine / Islândia Maria Carvalho de Sousa, Adriana Falangola Benjamin Bezerra, Camilla Maria Ferreira de Aquino -- 4. Traditional, complementary and integrative medicine : policy, legal and regulatory perspectives / Jon Wardle, Daniel Gallego-Perez, Vincent Chung, Jon Adams -- 5. Coordination, collaboration and capacity building through national practice-based research networks : a new paradigm of research in TCIM / Jon Adams, Amie Steel, Janet Schloss, Wenbo Peng -- 6. A holistic approach to implementation science (IS) : broadening the IS gaze to traditional, complementary and integrative medicine / Jon Adams, Amie Steel, Rebecca Reid -- 7. Capacity building in TCIM : a focus upon public health and health services research / Jon Adams, Amie Steel, Wenbo Peng, David Sibbritt, Jon Wardle --

Section 2. Substantive topics and key issues : -- 8. Traditional medicine and traditional birth attendant use during pregnancy and birthing in low to middle-income countries / Bradley Leech, Jon Adams and Amie Steel -- 9. Traditional medicine in cancer care / Janet Schloss and Amie Steel -- 10. Traditional, complementary and integrative medicine as self care in chronic illness : a focus upon stroke and older adults / Jon Adams, Wenbo Peng, Jason Prior, Roger Dunston, Erica McIntyre, Irena Connon, David Sibbritt, Alex Broom, Patricia Davidson and Bradley Leech -- 11. Low back pain and manual therapies : examining care via non-conventional approaches / Eric Roseen, Jon Adams, Bradley Leech -- 12. Traditional, complementary and integrative medicine in the Brazilian public health service : opportunities and limitations / Islândia Maria Carvalho de Sousa, Adriana Falangola Benjamin Bezerra, Maria Beatriz Guimarães, Iracema de Almeida Benevides, Charles Dalcanale Tesser -- 13. Traditional medicine and relational ecological public health : challenges and opportunities / Erica McIntyre, Jason Prior, Jon Adams -- 14. The need for research on the use of traditional and complementary medicine in emerging and re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks : ebola as a case study / Peter Bai James, Jon Wardle, Amie Steel, Jon Adams -- 15. Health disparities and TCIM use : reflections and recommendations from a social justice perspective / Elizabeth Sommers, Jon Adams.