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M Künzi

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PubMed1999

[Complementary medicine and health legislation].

This review begins by explaining the meaning and purpose of health law in general. While legal regulations pertinent to mainstream medicine are functioning well, this project focuses on the legal situation that developed in Switzerland as a consequence of the increasing availability and use of services in complementary medicine. There are obvious gaps and deficits in our legislation concerning medical and paramedical providers of services in complementary medicine. Main emphasis of this project, therefore, was placed on the regulations dealing with health professionals in complementary medicine, in particular on standards of training, on licenses to practice, and on the compensation by health insurance funds. The project achieved a comprehensive stock-taking of the great variety of the Swiss federal and the 26 cantonal laws and regulations. It also drew conclusions on the necessity to formulate generally applicable rules and regulations for the field of complementary medicine and finally submitted a list of practical recommendations.

Complementary Therapies↗
PubMed1994

[Complementary medicine and health policy regulations].

A comprehensive approach to the broad field of complementary medicine must necessarily embrace the whole question of health policy rules. It is part of this approach to classify complementary medicine as belonging to the field of naturopathy and specific methods, on the grounds that naturopathic methods can, in most cases, be subjected to scientific evaluation. At the same time, however, specific methods such as homeopathy, acupuncture, and neuropathy should not be sidelined. On the contrary, experience gathered over a great many years has proven the efficacy of these methods, and this should be the criterion for official recognition by health insurance schemas. In other words, the conventional science-based approval procedures should be widened. It follows that changes to the approval procedures would have an impact on the providers of complementary medicine, as well as on hospitals. At present the individual cantons decide to what extent therapists who are not qualified doctors are permitted to practice complementary medicine. The question whether or not to standardize, simplify or tighten the rules for admission is left open here.

Acupuncture Therapy↗