Alternative Medicine | |
Treatments given with the aim of curing or preventing disease, promoting or maintaining health and wellbeing, or as symptom management instead of conventional medicine. | |
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) | |
Generic term for all therapies and medical systems not included, or not perceived, as a standardised part of conventional medicine. | |
Complementary Medicine | |
Treatments given with the aim of curing or preventing disease, promoting or maintaining health and wellbeing, or for symptom management in parallel with conventional medicine. | |
Conventional Medicine | |
Treatment regulated by the current governmental, political healthcare system and given by registered healthcare professions in public hospitals, district healthcare centres, home nursing and nursing homes. | |
Integrative Medicine | |
Evidence-based treatments given in collaboration and with dialogue between conventional medicine and alternative and complementary medicine practitioners. |