Application of Natural and Traditional Medicine in four polyclinics in Pinar del Río
Introduction: Natural and Traditional Medicine allows professionals to broaden the scientific scope in an integrative way, showing their performance in the health areas of Pinar del Río. Objective: to identify the elements that limits the practice of therapeutic modalities of Natural and Traditiona...
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| author | Irene Alvarez Alonzo Maria de la Caridad Casanova Moreno Raúl Daniel Lagar Martínez Margarita Gonzalez Tapia Luis Vivas Bombino |
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| description | Introduction: Natural and Traditional Medicine allows professionals to broaden the scientific scope in an integrative way, showing their performance in the health areas of Pinar del Río.
Objective: to identify the elements that limits the practice of therapeutic modalities of Natural and Traditional Medicine at primary health care in Pinar del Río municipality.
Methods: a descriptive observational study was conducted between May 2016 and July 2017 in the four polyclinics of the municipality of Pinar del Río. The study target group included the doctors and professors of the Basic Work Team (U=1 006). The collection of sample was conducted through cases by authority criteria, and within these by simple random cases, sample (n=234).
Results: Comprehensive Medicine Specialists with more than five years of experience predominated, 30.3 % do not applied Natural and Traditional Medicine, 67.9 % considered it useful, 58.8% recognized its effectiveness, phytotherapy prevailed (69.6 %).
Conclusion: the application of Natural and Traditional Medicine still demands a priority by the professionals in the primary health care as an alternative to its application, a not minor part expresses not to make use of it, everything indicates that it is an element not to be left to the spontaneity taking care of the scientific and ethical aspects of its necessary prescription as therapeutic modalities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8c3cf135afa84ad0a544154452715e8b2022-12-21T18:48:36ZspaECIMEDRevista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río1561-31942019-07-012356896961800Application of Natural and Traditional Medicine in four polyclinics in Pinar del RíoIrene Alvarez Alonzo0Maria de la Caridad Casanova Moreno1Raúl Daniel Lagar Martínez2Margarita Gonzalez Tapia3Luis Vivas Bombino4Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río, CubaUniversidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río, CubaUniversidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río. Hospital Provincial Pediátrico Docente Pepe Portilla. Pinar del Río. Cuba.Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río. Centro Municipal de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología. Pinar del Río. Cuba.Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río. Cuba.Introduction: Natural and Traditional Medicine allows professionals to broaden the scientific scope in an integrative way, showing their performance in the health areas of Pinar del Río. Objective: to identify the elements that limits the practice of therapeutic modalities of Natural and Traditional Medicine at primary health care in Pinar del Río municipality. Methods: a descriptive observational study was conducted between May 2016 and July 2017 in the four polyclinics of the municipality of Pinar del Río. The study target group included the doctors and professors of the Basic Work Team (U=1 006). The collection of sample was conducted through cases by authority criteria, and within these by simple random cases, sample (n=234). Results: Comprehensive Medicine Specialists with more than five years of experience predominated, 30.3 % do not applied Natural and Traditional Medicine, 67.9 % considered it useful, 58.8% recognized its effectiveness, phytotherapy prevailed (69.6 %). Conclusion: the application of Natural and Traditional Medicine still demands a priority by the professionals in the primary health care as an alternative to its application, a not minor part expresses not to make use of it, everything indicates that it is an element not to be left to the spontaneity taking care of the scientific and ethical aspects of its necessary prescription as therapeutic modalities.http://www.revcmpinar.sld.cu/index.php/publicaciones/article/view/4019terapéuticaatención primaria de saludmedicina tradicionalfitoterapiamedicina china tradicional. |
| spellingShingle | Irene Alvarez Alonzo Maria de la Caridad Casanova Moreno Raúl Daniel Lagar Martínez Margarita Gonzalez Tapia Luis Vivas Bombino Application of Natural and Traditional Medicine in four polyclinics in Pinar del Río Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río terapéutica atención primaria de salud medicina tradicional fitoterapia medicina china tradicional. |
| title | Application of Natural and Traditional Medicine in four polyclinics in Pinar del Río |
| title_full | Application of Natural and Traditional Medicine in four polyclinics in Pinar del Río |
| title_fullStr | Application of Natural and Traditional Medicine in four polyclinics in Pinar del Río |
| title_full_unstemmed | Application of Natural and Traditional Medicine in four polyclinics in Pinar del Río |
| title_short | Application of Natural and Traditional Medicine in four polyclinics in Pinar del Río |
| title_sort | application of natural and traditional medicine in four polyclinics in pinar del rio |
| topic | terapéutica atención primaria de salud medicina tradicional fitoterapia medicina china tradicional. |
| url | http://www.revcmpinar.sld.cu/index.php/publicaciones/article/view/4019 |
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