Room for improvement: complementary therapy users and the Australian health system

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

E-ISSN: 1369-7625|18|5|1451-1462

ISSN: 1369-6513

Source: Health Expectations (Electronic), Vol.18, Iss.5, 2015-10, pp. : 1451-1462

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Abstract

People with chronic conditions who are often in contact with the health‐care system are well placed to reflect on how services meet their needs. Some research characterizes people who use complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) as a distinct group who opt out of the mainstream health system. However, many CAM users are people with chronic or terminal health conditions who concurrently use mainstream health‐care services. The difference in perspectives between people with chronic conditions who do or do not use CAM has received little attention by researchers.