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Descriptor English: National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (U.S.)
Descriptor Spanish: National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (U.S.)
Descriptor National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (U.S.)
Entry term(s) CNMCA
Centro Nacional de Medicina Complementaria y Alternativa (EE. UU.)
Centro Nacional de Medicina Complementaria y Integral
Centro Nacional de Salud Complementaria y Alternativa
Scope note: La misión del CNMCA es definir, a través de la investigación científica rigurosa, la utilidad y seguridad de las intervenciones complementarias e integrativas sobre la salud, y su función en mejorar la salud y la atención sanitaria. El centro fue creado en 1999 y hasta el 2015 se llamó Centro de Medicina Complementaria y Alternativa.
Descriptor Portuguese: National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (U.S.)
Descriptor French: National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (USA)
Entry term(s): NCCHI
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
National Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Tree number(s): I01.409.418.750.600.650.496.188
N03.540.348.500.500.600.650.496.188
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000072667
Scope note: The mission of NCCIH is to define, through rigorous scientific investigation, the usefulness and safety of complementary and integrative health interventions and their roles in improving health and health care. The Center was established in 1999 and was known as NCCAM National Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine until 2015.
Annotation: add UNITED STATES; research support by this agency is checked as RESEARCH SUPPORT, N.I.H., EXTRAMURAL or RESEARCH SUPPORT, N.I.H., INTRAMURAL; CATALOGER: Use NAF entry
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 2017
History Note: 2017
DeCS ID: 56790
Unique ID: D000072667
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2017/01/01
Date of Entry: 2016/07/08
Revision Date: 2016/12/16
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (U.S.) - Preferred
Concept UI M000617742
Scope note The mission of NCCIH is to define, through rigorous scientific investigation, the usefulness and safety of complementary and integrative health interventions and their roles in improving health and health care. The Center was established in 1999 and was known as NCCAM National Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine until 2015.
Preferred term National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (U.S.)
Entry term(s) NCCHI
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
National Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine



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