The People's Declaration for TCIH

🙌 As we celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the TCIH Coalition, we reflect on our main achievements: ✔️More than 300 signatory organizations worldwide. ✔️Significant input in World Health Organization's draft Traditional Medicine Strategy 2025–2034, including scientific publications. ✔️As a global civil society coalition, playing a crucial function within global health systems: at the 2023 Global Traditional Medicine Summit, in direct dialogue with the WHO Director General, and elsewhere. ✔️We continue to advocate for holistic, integrated approaches to healthcare, emphasizing the importance of traditional, complementary, and integrative practices. ➡ Details about the main achievements of our 2nd year of activity are available here: 🔗 https://rb.gy/p976oy 🎯With these milestones behind us, we acknowledge the new challenges ahead and are ready and eager to continue our mission to foster universally accessible, culturally appropriate healthcare. 🔎To read and🖋️the People's Declaration for TCIH, you can access this link: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/egrn6CDN #TCIH #IntegrativeHealth #GlobalHealthPolicy

On International Nurses' Day, #IND2024, let's reflect on the power of care. As the largest group of all health professions and an important group also in the #TCIH field, nurses build trust and confidence, which are essential to health, societies and flourishing economies. Investing in nursing education and public health is an investment in societal cohesion and economic growth. Nurses' strategies and attitudes create resilient human-centered healthcare systems, which lead to thriving societies and successful economic systems. Let's recognize the vital role nurses play in our health and economies. #OurNursesOurFuture   

🆕 The TCIH Coalition welcomes the World Health Organization's draft Traditional Medicine Strategy 2025–2034 and calls for Member States' active involvement in finalizing it. It marks a significant step forward for #TM, elevating #TCIM's role in helping to address global health problems, making healthcare more holistic and person-centered care and contributing to both human and planetary health. The draft strategy is ambitious and action-oriented, with clear targets, including ambitious investment in research. ➡ Civil society involvement is crucial throughout the adoption & implementation phase of the World Health Organization's new #TraditionalMedicine strategy. Read our official position here: ⤵ 🔗 https://rb.gy/kf6uy1 We will work with all partners towards universal access to safe, effective and people-centred traditional, complementary and integrative medicine for health and well-being. Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine (AIHM) EUROCAM  IVAA | International Federation of Anthroposophic Medical Associations Southern Cross University

🗓 On #WorldCancerDay, we emphasize the added value of integrating   Traditional, Complementary, and Integrative Healthcare (#TCIH) into the standard healthcare model. 📊 The addition of TCIH can significantly help patients cope with the burden of the disease and side effects of conventional cancer treatment, thereby improving #health, quality of life, and clinical results at all phases of the disease. 🌐 Embracing a collective commitment to bridge the care gap, we advocate for the integration of holistic and integrative care to ensure that every patient receives comprehensive and personalized care. #CloseTheCareGap #WorldCancerDay2024 #CancerAwareness #IntegrativeMedicine 

🌐 Today, on #WorldCancerDay, healthcare practitioners, #patients, and policymakers are coming together to collectively address the need to "Close the care gap." Acknowledging the contribution  of Traditional, Complementary, and Integrative Healthcare (#TCIH), we recognize its important role in addressing a spectrum of #globalhealth challenges, including #cancer. 🤝 Our commitment to bridging the care gap involves integrating #holistic and integrative healthcare solutions to cancer care, so patients have access to TCIH treatment along all disease stages #CloseTheCareGap #WorldCancerDay2024 #CancerAwareness #IntegrativeMedicine

💡 “We are at a critical juncture with Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Healthcare (#TCIH). It has the potential to be a pivotal tool in fighting current and future #healthchallenges. It also offers a more human, #personcentred approach to #medicine. As the World Health Organization looks to its next strategy, it is an important moment to assess the lessons from the past and apply them to the future.” 🔉 Said Dr Tido von Schoen-Angerer, a pediatrician and the lead author of the recently published article; “Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Healthcare: Global Stakeholder Perspective on WHO's Current and Future Strategy”. 📚 ✅ The findings, published in the open-access BMJ Global Health journal, highlight crucial areas including #research, regulation of products, practitioners and practices, as well as the utilization of TCIH approaches for #healthpromotion, prevention, and #treatment, and integration into #healthsystems. The authors advocate for viewing TCIH as a pivotal resource in the transformation of healthcare systems, shifting from a disease-centered to a person-centered model. 🔁 👉 For more information, read our recently published #pressrelease: https://lnkd.in/dk96gZvS 👉 Article reference (Open access): von Schoen-Angerer T, Manchanda RK, Lloyd I, et al. Traditional, complementary and integrative healthcare: global stakeholder perspective on WHO’s current and future strategy. BMJ Glob Health 2023;0:e013150. https://lnkd.in/dh8-Qsnx

Recent analysis underscores the untapped potential of Traditional, Complementary, and Integrative Healthcare (#TCIH) in addressing a spectrum of #health issues. Published in the BMJ Global Health journal, the findings shed light on critical areas encompassing #research; regulation of product, practitioners and practices; and integration of TCIH into health systems. 🌿   📊 The article, titled "Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Healthcare: Global Stakeholder Perspective on WHO's Current and Future Strategy," is written from the standpoint of the "People's Declaration on Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Healthcare." Its primary objectives are to evaluate the progress made in the implementation of the World Health Organization's (WHO) #TraditionalMedicine Strategy (2014 – 2023, extended until 2025) and to provide a stakeholder perspective for the upcoming Strategy, set to be unveiled in 2025. 🌍📈   🔍 The authors urge a transformative shift in healthcare paradigms, advocating for the inclusion of TCIH in healthcare systems. 👉 For more information, read our recently published #pressrelease: https://lnkd.in/dk96gZvS 👉 Article reference (Open access): von Schoen-Angerer T, Manchanda RK, Lloyd I, et al. Traditional, complementary and integrative healthcare: global stakeholder perspective on WHO’s current and future strategy. BMJ Glob Health 2023;0:e013150. https://lnkd.in/dh8-Qsnx

🔗 The World AMR Awareness Week (#WAAW2023) emphasizes collaborative efforts in preventing Antimicrobial Resistance. 👉 It's crucial that all stakeholders advocate for the integration of Traditional Complementary Integrative Healthcare (#TCIH). Guided by a #OneHealth approach, TCIH offers a comprehensive solution that prioritizes prevention, holistic management, and patient education. 💊 AMR is a multifaceted #publichealth concern that affects not only humans but also #animals, #plants, and the #environment, and leads to significant consequences such as increased mortality rates and economic challenges. According to the World Health Organization (2023), AMR poses global risks to the health of humans, animals, and #ecosystems. 🌿 Traditional Complementary Integrative Healthcare (TCIH) plays a pivotal role in addressing the global challenge of AMR. By emphasizing a holistic approach, TCIH offers strategies to mitigate the use of antibiotics in both human and veterinary medicine. Read our position paper and explore how TCIH contributes to prevention, management, and patient education in the fight against AMR! 💪🌐 https://lnkd.in/eXUj9eCF #TCIH #AMR #HealthcareInnovation

🔎 Discover the insights from the TCIH Coalition's newly released #positionpaper on the role of #TCIH in addressing Antimicrobial Resistance (#AMR); ✅ Prevention: TCIH practices prioritize #healthpromotion and enhance patients' resilience against diseases. This approach reduces the need for #antibiotic treatments by fostering overall health and well-being through interventions like dietary guidance, stress management techniques, and lifestyle adjustments. ✅ Management: TCIH takes a comprehensive and holistic approach to AMR management, providing Adjunct Therapy in Supporting Standard Treatments and Non-antibiotic Treatment options, that align with the responsible use of antibiotics. This contributes to the preservation of the effectiveness of these critical drugs. ✅ Education and Empowerment of #Patients: TCIH therapies are committed to educating and empowering patients, enabling them to make informed decisions about their health. This approach fosters a collaborative and informed partnership between healthcare providers and patients and encourages responsible self-care practices. Read our full position paper: https://lnkd.in/eXUj9eCF #WAAW #WAAW2023

🌏 The GIFTS-AMR (Global Initiative for Traditional Solutions to Antimicrobial Resistance) project group has recently developed a global #researchagenda, that was shared during the Research Conference on Traditional, Complementary & Integrative Healthcare (#TCIH) Strategies for Infections and #AMR Reduction, which took place online a week ago, on 9 & 10 November. 🔎 The document describes a #global #research agenda on TCIH strategies and natural medicinal products to prevent and treat #infections, and to reduce antimicrobial resistance, with the primary focus on #healthpromotion. 🤝 The research agenda provides the strategic basis for the GIFTS-AMR network to collaborate on research proposals and funding applications and provides information on TCIH for #policymakers, #researchers, #healthcare professionals (organizations), and #patients (organizations) on the national, regional and global level. On the occasion of World AMR Awareness Week (#WAAW), the TCIH Coalition calls on #decisionmakers to take action in the areas of #policy, public #education, #research, and #development to fight AMR. It's crucial that all stakeholders advocate for the integration of TCIH. Visit this link to access the full research agenda: https://lnkd.in/evHxYsYU #WAAW2023 JPIAMR