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Descriptor English: Traditional Complex Medical Systems
Descriptor Spanish: Sistemas Médicos Complejos Tradicionales
Descriptor sistemas médicos complejos tradicionales
Descriptor Portuguese: Sistemas Médicos Complexos Tradicionais
Descriptor French: Systèmes médicaux complexes traditionnels
Entry term(s): Complex Medical Systems
Traditional Complex Health Systems
Traditional Health Systems
Traditional Medical Systems
Tree number(s): MT1
Scope note: The sum total of the knowledge, skill and practices based on the theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness. (From: https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB134/B134_24-en.pdf)
Annotation: general; prefer specifics; use only when the subject of discussion
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
DeCS ID: 59922
Unique ID: DDCS059922
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Date of Entry: 2022/02/14
Traditional Complex Medical Systems - Preferred
Concept UI FD00066504
Scope note The sum total of the knowledge, skill and practices based on the theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness. (From: https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB134/B134_24-en.pdf)
Preferred term Traditional Complex Medical Systems
Entry term(s) Complex Medical Systems
Traditional Complex Health Systems
Traditional Health Systems
Traditional Medical Systems



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